Franz Borghese - The Couple

The painting exemplifies the typical work of the painter Franz Borghese. The artist invented a world populated by wealthy bourgeoisie, depicted in a wide variety of poses and situations. The subjects are depicted almost like automatons, with caricatured and simplified forms.

The work's iconography has an ironic, grotesque quality, likely with various allegorical and satirical interpretations. The language used has strong connections to the German New Objectivity artistic movement. The same simplified and infantile interpretation of a realism based on caricature is evident. We find the same cynical nature of painters like George Grosz and Otto Dix in lashing out at their own society with lucid irony.

Franz Borghese was a Roman painter born in 1941 and died in 2005. He studied at the Art High School on Via di Ripetta, where Turcato, Purificato, and Capogrossi taught. In 1964, he founded the group and magazine "Ferro di Cavallo." He had his first exhibition in 1968. Two years later, in 1970, he began developing his sarcastic style, inspired by Grosz and Dix. His art is a metaphor for a turn-of-the-century bourgeoisie that symbolized human weaknesses.

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