Mario Costantini - Gunter Grass

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.

In this portrait of Nobel Prize-winning German writer Günter Grass, artist Mario Costantini demonstrates remarkable technical skill in the graphic art of screen printing. The entire image is constructed through a series of broken lines. The artist uses broad hatching, achieving the dual effect of a truthful and realistic image of the well-known figure, along with a profound psychological and intellectual tension.

Artist Mario Costantini, as we can see from this silkscreen, possesses excellent graphic technique. His style is figurative, but he achieves remarkable expressive power through the liveliness of his lines.

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