Remo Brindisi - Smoker

The work has a marked expressionist vocation, which tends to emphasize the expression of emotions. Expressionist art seeks to proclaim its moods to the world and flaunt them with passion. Formally, this translates into a summary rendering of the figures, through a very nervous and animated line, as well as the use of a violent color palette. These characteristics are found in the historical avant-garde movements of expressionism: Fauvism and the Die Brucke movement in Germany.

In this painting, Remo Brindisi's Expressionism seems even more aggressive. The artist exerts an extreme synthesis on his subject, which also reflects a gestural handling of the brushstrokes. In this way, the language seems more akin to that of Abstract Expressionism, so much so that the subject is difficult to read. The brushstrokes have extraordinary vigor and energy; the entire figure appears to be enveloped in a vortex of color, creating a truly extreme chromatic and compositional dynamism.

Remo Brindisi was born in Rome in 1918 and died in Lido di Spina in 1996. His first solo exhibition was held in Florence in 1940. From then on, he enjoyed great renown. His painting cycles, "Venezie", "Oppositori", "Pastorelli", and "Maternità", are famous. He also painted a cycle on the history of Fascism. His works have been exhibited in numerous exhibitions in Italy and abroad (Paris, Nice, Milan, Venice, Rome, Cairo, and São Paulo, Brazil). Between the 1940s and 1950s, he participated in several editions of the Rome Quadrennial and the Venice Biennale.

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