Protagonists of Art - A Tribute to Ligabue

Animal portraits in art have ancient origins, appearing even in primitive cave paintings. For religious reasons, various types of animals appear in the works of various ancient civilizations. It was especially in the Middle Ages, within the International Gothic style, that animal depictions became widespread as true life portraits, both within works of art and in notebooks of drawings and sketches. The presence of animals as subjects in art remained constant until the contemporary era. This silkscreen is inspired by the work "Cavalli imbizzarriti" by Antonio Ligabue.

Antonio Ligabue can truly be considered, in the history of art, the greatest example of the concept of naive painting, both for his biographical story and for the translation of that story into an instinctive and highly original pictorial style. Marginalization, nervous breakdowns, and self-taught training led the artist to rework reality into infantile and primitive forms. But the artist's greatness lies in delineating an elaborate vision of the world even within that essential and instinctive representation. Indeed, in his simplification of reality, Ligabue simultaneously intuits its complexity. For this reason, the subject is synthesized in a two-dimensionally conceived space, but, at the same time, is constructed through a complex system of lines that takes into account both the volume and the dynamism of the depicted scene. A system of lines that,
Furthermore, it moves on different planes, replacing spatial two-dimensionality and recreating it on a conceptual level. The color tends to adhere to a naturalistic rendering but with excessively intense tones, attributable to the Naïve poetics.

The work is part of a collection called "The Protagonists of Art," which features reproductions inspired by works by the great masters of art history. The series consists of graphics created by Roman artisans using the silkscreen method. The resulting plate was then immersed in a 24K gold solution.

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