{"product_id":"aligi-sassu-senza-titolo-23","title":"Aligi Sassu - Untitled","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe depiction of animals in art has ancient origins, even appearing in primitive cave paintings. For reasons of worship, various types of animals appear in the works of various ancient civilizations. It was especially in the Middle Ages, within the International Gothic style, that animal depictions became widespread as true portraits from life, both within works of art and in notebooks of drawings and sketches. The presence of animals as subjects in art remained constant until the contemporary era. In Aligi Sassu's work, aimed at expressing uncontrollable dynamic forces, animals, especially horses, often appear to represent the forces arising from movement. In this case, the Milanese artist attempts to depict the bull, an object with ancient origins, even appearing in primitive cave paintings. For reasons of worship, it also frequently appears in the works of ancient civilizations, particularly the Minoan-Cretan civilization. In contemporary art, Picasso's studies of the figure of the bull are famous.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n \u003cp\u003eThis work is a striking example of Aligi Sassu's artistic production, which, while remaining figurative, adopts anti-naturalistic forms. In this watercolor, too, we can see how the subject is characterized by expressive deformations that accentuate its dynamism and physical effort. All the lines of the composition are designed to convey to the viewer a sense of frenetic movement and strength. Furthermore, in this case, Sassu favors a very strong impression of movement from the very beginning of the subject, depicting the bull in the act of striding, all based on a dynamic line reaching forward. The characteristic lively and vibrant pictorial texture, with clear references to the dissolution of form typical of nineteenth-century Romantic painting, only accentuates the animal's energy, imbuing its body with chromatic tensions that are also dynamic. The deformations, then, through patches of color that express swellings, highlight the presence of the muscles and, therefore, describe the vital energy of the bull.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n \u003cp\u003eAligi Sassu, born in Milan in 1912 and died in Pollenca 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 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Molteni Gian Paolo","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56218581500290,"sku":"GMOL013","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0909\/7065\/3058\/files\/13-1_5cc7e04a-71f3-43e3-bc3b-f10d1c3bc09f.jpg?v=1768474512","url":"https:\/\/cjfh11-ee.myshopify.com\/en\/products\/aligi-sassu-senza-titolo-23","provider":"Venderequadri","version":"1.0","type":"link"}