Renato Guttuso - Untitled

Landscape has always been a central theme in artistic research, both as a setting, as a backdrop, and as a subject itself. The naturalistic depiction of landscape has been a major aspiration for artists of every era. Each historical period has offered its own interpretation of landscape, contributing to the evolution of its depiction: first with an exploration of space, through Brunelleschi's perspective in the early Renaissance; then with atmospheric rendering in the sixteenth century; and finally with the depiction of every single vibration of light on objects in Impressionism.

This ceramic work demonstrates how Guttuso's style always straddles the object's phenomenal reality (what we can experience through our senses) and its noumenal reality (what we can explore through our intellect). Indeed, his artistic structure is extremely solid, anchored to the perceptible world before his eyes. However, his interpretation of this landscape with prickly pears demonstrates that his perception of the object, and especially of the object in space, transcends the phenomenon. Indeed, the representation is conducted along multiple directional lines, according to a non-univocal perspective. In this way, the structures of things are explored more deeply, breaking them down within the complex space created by the artist. Renato Guttuso's investigative process continues through his pictorial layering, emphasizing areas of volume and highlighting the object's relationships with the space it interacts with. Furthermore, Renato Guttuso employs an elaborate pictorial style that imbues the objects with existential vibrations. As for the palette, in this ceramic we note the use of bright colours.

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 and his outrage over social injustice and abuses of power. He participated in the Fronte Nuovo delle Arti group, developing a Realist-Expressionist style of painting and developing his "social art." Guttuso's most important works, expressing his neorealist art, were masterpieces such as Ficilazione in Campagna (Fucilation in the Countryside) and Fuga dall'Etna (Escape from Etna). He was also elected senator twice, in 1976 and 1979, for the Italian Communist Party.

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