Walter Pozzi - Portrait

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.

The work of painter Walter Pozzi is distinguished by various stylistic registers. It ranges from the more surreal, in which the painter constructs a playful world of acrobats and masked musicians, to the more realist. The present work undoubtedly belongs to the latter category and demonstrates Pozzi's realism, which is very subdued and seeks humble and simple existential values. Formally, this translates into a restrained form that favors a dry physiognomy in a dynamic, vibrant pictorial style. The color palette, based on brown tones, also fits this poetics.

Walter Pozzi was a painter from Bergamo, born in 1911. His career developed in Milan, where he frequented the studio of Ermenegildo Agazzi. In 1939, he founded the "La Rotonda" group. In 1945, he formed the "Il Gatto Nero" group, whose activities would influence Milanese artistic life for about a decade. He participated in important exhibitions abroad as well. He passed away in Milan in 1989.

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