Aligi Sassu - The Celestine

The human figure has always been at the center of artistic research. Since the classical age, the naturalistic rendering of human anatomy has been a primary goal of painters and sculptors throughout history. The representation of the nude is the ultimate expression of this aspiration, pervasive across all eras and stylistic trends. Indeed, in addition to the naturalistic interpretations of the Renaissance and various classicisms, which aimed for a truthful and detailed representation of the human body, the nude has also been a central theme in the new aesthetic concepts brought about by the historical avant-garde movements, such as Cubism, Expressionism, and Surrealism.

The engraving technique employed by Aligi Sassu in this work takes on a distinct freshness and spontaneous execution. This owes much to the artist's skill, who manages to construct the representation with a rapid and concise touch, while maintaining descriptive clarity and concreteness of form. Even in this subject, which focuses on the exaltation of the female figure, the great dynamism of Aligi Sassu's pictorial style remains unchanged; the entire composition is indeed dynamic and extremely vibrant. Even the choice of colors takes on decidedly expressionist overtones, with the strong contrast between red, typical of this artist's work, and white, creating an almost negative-like definition of the image.

Aligi Sassu, born in Milan in 1912 and died in 2000, was a painter and sculptor. His painting focused primarily on the representation of movement and physical strength, which is why the subject of a man on horseback was always congenial to him. In the late 1970s, he and Bruno Munari drafted the pictorial manifesto "Dynamism and Muscular Reform," which called for a return to anti-naturalistic forms in a dynamic sense. Much of his painting, moreover, is inspired by Delacroix and his struggles.

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