Aligi Sassu - The Death of Hector

The work depicts one of the most famous moments in the Greek epic: the death of Hector. The subject is taken from Book 22 of the Iliad, in which Homer recounts how Achilles, blinded by rage over the death of his friend Patroclus, manages to trick the Trojan hero and fatally wound him in the neck, the only part not protected by the armor, which had previously belonged to Patroclus himself.

The painting stands out for its overwhelming dynamism, expressed through the use of a vibrant palette dominated by almost fiery reds and oranges. The brushstrokes are fluid and instinctive, typical of his expressionist style, where human and animal forms seem to merge into a single energetic mass.

Aligi Sassu, born in Milan in 1912 and died in 2000, was a painter and sculptor. His painting efforts focused primarily on the representation of movement and physical strength, which is why the subject of the horse or 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 battles.

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