Guido Toccacieli - Cataclysm

The subject of this work demonstrates a strong social commitment. These types of themes in art began to gain prominence towards the mid-19th century, coinciding with the spread of social issues in various 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 be deeply engaged with social issues were Pellizza da Volpedo and, in the contemporary era, Renato Guttuso.

In his painting style, the painter Guido Toccacieli seems to revisit a sort of personalized Pointillist-Symbolist language. The subjects populating the scene are depicted with generic and iconic features. Any particularism is transcended to provide a universalizing image, reminiscent of Gauguin's works. But it is above all the pictorial layering that makes Toccacieli's language distinctive. The entire space of the work is constructed through a dense hatching of long, thin brushstrokes that virtually break down the image, leaving the eye to reconstruct it. This hatching creates a curved space that accommodates the subjects and, in some ways, attempts to imitate the human visual field.

Guido Toccacieli was a Roman painter born in 1890. His painting seems to have been profoundly influenced by Symbolism and Divisionism.

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