Saverio Bruschini - Untitled

Social themes in art began to gain prominence in the mid-19th century, coinciding with the spread of social questions throughout European societies. The work of painters such as Millet and Daumier, for example, favored subjects related to life in the fields, factory work, or strikes. In Italy, among the first painters to engage deeply with social themes were Pellizza da Volpedo and, in the contemporary era, Renato Guttuso. This work by Saverio Bruschini also falls within this trend, and his favorite subjects are precisely fishermen and farmers, depicted through his original and personal artistic language, which combines contemporaneity with an authentic and sincere description of a typical popular reality.

This work by Saverio Bruschini fits perfectly into a pictorial movement that combines realist themes with a predominantly expressionist language. Indeed, while the subject matter focuses on the world of work and the working classes, the style calls for a synthetic interpretation of reality. In a two-dimensional space, everything is simplified to transfigure reality in an expressive and symbolic sense. The painter moves beyond the particular to arrive at an iconic representation with universal characteristics. The process of abstraction, therefore, is conducted by the painter to extract the essence from sensory data. In particular, the figures are simplified with a deliberately rough line that sketches them in a decidedly expressive manner. The application of color completes this process of synthesis with energetic brushstrokes and a color dense with pictorial substance. The palette focuses on strong contrasts.

Saverio Bruschini, a native of Lucca, was not only a painter but also a professor of art at the Augusto Passaglia Art Institute in Lucca, but above all a comics writer (he published two books on comics). He is also remembered as the founder of the first comics school in Italy in the 1970s. He was a Yellow Kid winner, a caricaturist, a draftsman, and a skilled artist with clay. Saverio Bruschini passed away in 2019.

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