Barbara (painter)

Olga Biglieri Scurto, known under the pseudonym Barbara (15 March 1915 – 10 January 2002), was an Italian Futurist painter and aviator.

[2] Biglieri chose to work under the name of Barbara and to combine her two passions by including images of planes in her Aeropittura paintings.

[3] Her paintings are of significance as they are a testimony of how female aeropainters found a place in the classic man/machine futurist image, and to create the parallel concept of "superdonna" or woman/machine.

[2] Following a long period of pause, where she retired in Val d'Ossola to write children's books, Biglieri worked as a fashion journalist.

In 1998 she was the subject of an autobiography written by Francesca Brezzi, Quando il futurismo è donna: Barbara dei colori.