Manuel Campus - Untitled

Animal depictions in art have ancient origins, even appearing in primitive cave paintings. For religious reasons, 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 life portraits, 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.

This work is part of a very interesting series, in which Manuel Campus presents an experimental, decidedly expressionist language. Expressionist art seeks to proclaim its moods to the world and flaunt them with passion. Formally, this translates into a summary rendering of figures, through a highly 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 Brucke movement in Germany. Thus, drawing on these currents, Manuela Campus, in this work, begins with a brutal formal synthesis that reduces the subject to the bare minimum of elementary pictorial gestures. The works in this series are characterized by how the subject's structure is determined by a broad black line, with a broken and nervous movement. The black line generates disconnected areas, in which the color is applied in a gestural distribution. The chromatic tones are aggressive and violent, as in the best tradition of the Fauvist-Expressionist movement, and do not respect natural truth but have a spiritual and emotional value.

Manuel Campus is an artist of Sardinian origin, born in Domus De Maria in 1928, but lives in Bazzano Inferiore, near Spoleto. He established himself as an artist from a young age, including in ceramics. He directed the Piediluco School of Ceramics and the Rieti Art Institute. Many of his works have been acquired by important national and international museums, as well as by banks and religious institutions, hospitals, municipalities, prefectures, and private collections. From 1951 to 2004, he held numerous solo exhibitions in Italy and abroad. He has received numerous awards, honorary citizenships, and recognitions. Among others, in 1991, on the occasion of the 23rd edition of the "Golden Saint Valentine" International Award, the Committee for the Award of a Message of Love named him an honorary member of the Valentinian Academy.

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