Renato Guttuso - Untitled

The "Still Life" genre emerged in the early 17th century. It consists of compositions of inanimate subjects, most often flowers or fruit. While initially it was an opportunity for painters to attempt a photographic reproduction of reality, with contemporary art the "Still Life" also becomes a way of interpreting reality, as it did for the Cubists or Giorgio Morandi.

The lithograph demonstrates how Guttuso's style always straddles the boundary between phenomenal reality and the noumenal reality of the object. Indeed, his drawing structure is extremely solid, anchored in the perceptible world before his eyes. However, his interpretation of these fruits demonstrates that his perception of the object, and especially of the object in space, transcends the phenomenon. The representation is conducted along multiple directional lines, according to a non-univocal perspective, to further investigate the object with a strong sense of geometry. Through his application of color, Renato Guttuso also emphasizes areas of volume and highlights the object's relationship with the space in which it interacts. He employs an elaborate pictorial style that imbues the object with existential vibrations.

Renato Guttuso, born in Bagheria in 1911 and died in Rome in 1987, was a painter deeply involved in politics and social issues. His artistic commitment stemmed from his socialist ideals and his outrage over social injustice and abuses of power. He participated in the Fronte Nuovo delle Arti group, developing a Realist-Expressionist style of painting, developing his "social art." Guttuso's most important works, expressing his Neorealist art, were masterpieces such as Ficilazione in Campagna (Fucilation in the Countryside) and Fuga dall'Etna (Escape from Etna). He was also elected senator twice, in 1976 and 1979, for the Italian Communist Party.

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