Manlio Bacosi - Little Girl

The work has a marked expressionist vocation, which tends to emphasize the expression of emotions. Expressionist art seeks to proclaim its moods to the world and flaunt them with passion. Formally, this translates into a summary rendering of the figures, through a very nervous and animated line, as well as the use of a violent color palette. These characteristics are found in the historical avant-garde movements of expressionism: Fauvism and the Die Brücke movement in Germany. In the case of Manlio Bacosi, his expressionism leads to a very accentuated synthesis of the subject, but conducted in a minimalist stylistic register. We can clearly see this in his interpretation of a portrait, in
in which the physiognomic element almost completely disappears, to leave room for a set of signs with a high symbolic value.

Manlio Bacosi is a painter who transfigures reality in a refined stylistic blend of Expressionism and Informalism. The subject, whether a landscape or a portrait as in this case, undergoes a profound process of synthetic reduction that leads the artist to depict a minimal world, indicated by a few marks on flat, uniform layers of color in a two-dimensional space. In this way, Bacosi creates an almost surreal dimension, also characterized by colors with a highly symbolic and spiritual value. In this context, the artist also intervenes with a certain gestural nature that leads him to superimpose even more mysterious and hermetic pictorial signs onto this reality.

Manlio Bacosi was a painter originally from Perugia, born in 1921 and died in 1998. He trained under Leo Ravazzi and Gerardo Dottori. Beginning in 1947, he was featured in numerous exhibitions not only in Italy but also abroad. Among the most important are the 1972 retrospective in Todi and solo exhibitions in Recanati for the Leopardi Festival and in Montecatini in 1975.

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