EMILIO GRECO - Untitled

Portraiture is one of the most widespread artistic expressions, especially in painting, but also in sculpture, throughout the ages. Portraiture is, first and foremost, a description of the subject depicted, an attempt to capture their physiognomy and individual characteristics truthfully and naturally. With the progressive evolution of artistic research, the physiognomic description of the subject has also been accompanied by a psychological one. Therefore, over the centuries, portraiture has also become a means of introspective investigation of the subject, their character, and their state of mind. The processes of abstraction brought about by contemporary art have contributed to this type of investigation.

A beautiful lithograph that demonstrates Emilio Greco's technique not only as a sculptor, but also in his graphic works. Here, we can appreciate how the artist uses a blend of thin, wavy linearity and intricate hatching to delineate volumes and shadows. Thus, the image appears essential, yet at the same time possesses great expressive power and plasticity. Indeed, even in his graphic work, Emilio Greco's work is characterized by an extraordinary classical sense of representation. For him, artistic creation is identified with a mimetic relationship with Nature, and sensory data are interpreted according to principles of balance and harmony. Yet, an inherent sense of contemporaneity is evident in his capacity for expressive synthesis and the existential tension that arises from it.

Emilio Greco was an artist born in Catania in 1913 and died in Rome in 1995. Primarily engaged in sculpture, he was also a writer and illustrator. His research focused primarily on the female nude. His Bathers series and female portraits are famous. For a time, he taught at the Carrara Academy and achieved fame with the monument to Pinocchio and the Fairy, created in 1956 for the town of Collodi.

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