Salvatore Fiume - Untitled

The iconography of this work certainly has allegorical meanings and can be defined, in some ways, as symbolist precisely because of its allusion to underlying meanings. It is a type of subject matter that can be traced back to the artistic language of late-nineteenth-century painters such as Moreau, Bocklin, and Puvis des Chavannes, who, while using a primarily figurative language, developed intellectually complex iconographies, full of symbolic and allegorical references. Along with his fascination with the exotic and distant, the artist Salvatore Fiume also produced a series of works with visionary, citational, and mystical subjects, inspired by a legendary and primordial world. In these works, the Sicilian artist developed his most complex iconographies, with profound symbolic meanings.

This work is part of a series of graphic works in which Salvatore Fiume, while remaining consistent with his figurative language and his exploration of formal values, adopts a more expressionistic approach. The subjects are more concise and essential, and the plasticity that characterizes his famous female figures is absent. The color is applied in compact areas reminiscent of Gauguin's cloisonnism, delineating the forms with few strokes of color. The drawing is kept to a minimum, used only to outline the figures with a few iconic strokes. From a chromatic perspective, the tendency toward bold contrasts prevails.

Salvatore Fiume was born in 1915 in Comiso and died in Milan in 1997. In addition to being a painter and sculptor, he was also an architect. His career as a painter focused on a reinterpretation of classicism, particularly Renaissance painting and Piero della Francesca. Later, thanks to his success, he traveled extensively around the world, drawing inspiration from exotic folklore, which he rendered in an expressionist manner.

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