Renato Guttuso - Basket with Bottles

The "Still Life" genre emerged in the early 17th century. It consists of compositions of inanimate subjects, most often flowers or fruit. While initially it was an opportunity for painters to attempt a photographic reproduction of reality, with contemporary art the "Still Life" also becomes a way of interpreting reality, as it did for the Cubists or Giorgio Morandi.

This lithograph demonstrates how Guttuso's style always straddles the boundary between the phenomenal and the noumenal reality of the object. Indeed, his drawing structure is extremely solid, anchored in the perceptible world before his eyes. However, his interpretation of this basket of bottles demonstrates that his perception of the object, and especially of the object in space, transcends the phenomenon. Through areas of color, Guttuso explores the entire object, its entire volume, and all its potential for interaction with the surrounding space.

Renato Guttuso, born in Bagheria in 1911 and died in Rome in 1987, was a painter deeply involved in politics and social issues. His artistic commitment stemmed from his socialist ideals, his contempt for social injustice and abuses of power. He participated in the Fronte Nuovo delle Arti group, developing a Realist-Expressionist style of painting, thus developing his "social art."

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