Mino Maccari - Faces

The work's iconography has an ironic, grotesque quality, likely with some allegorical and satirical connections. The language used has strong ties to the German New Objectivity artistic movement. The same simplified and infantile interpretation of reality 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.

In this lithograph, Mino Maccari seems to abandon his brutally expressionist style to create a more surrealist and somewhat humorous composition. This interpretation of this work can be considered sketchy, revealing an unusual side of Maccari as an artist. The painter, however, sketches the figures with a nervous, very lively line, which undoubtedly has a connection to Maccari's expressionist artistic language. The hatching is also very forceful, delineating large areas of shade.

Mino Maccari was born in Siena in 1898 and died in Rome in 1989. A prominent figure in Italian culture, he was a writer, painter, and journalist. His artistic career flourished especially after World War II. In 1962, he was appointed president of the Accademia di San Luca, and a solo exhibition of his work was held in New York. Mino Maccari produced a vast body of drawings, prints, and watercolors, always characterized by an expressionistic flair for violent drawing and a vibrant pictorial interpretation.

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