Trento Longaretti - The Old Man and the Child

The iconography of this painting certainly has allegorical meanings and can be defined, in some ways, as symbolist precisely because of its allusion to underlying meanings. It is a type of subject that can be traced back to the artistic language of late nineteenth-century painters such as Moreau, Bocklin, or Puvis des Chavannes, who, despite using a substantially figurative language, developed intellectually complex iconographies, full of symbolic and allegorical references.

Trento Longaretti, in his career as a painter, was one of the most moving interpreters of the war and post-war period. Longaretti focused primarily on the persecution of the Jewish people, whom he always depicted with figures of wayfarers, eternally on the move, homeless people searching for a place to rest. These are powerfully symbolic figures (for this reason, almost decontextualized, so as to assume a more generic character) that point the finger at any kind of persecution or discrimination. Formally, as already mentioned, Longaretti focuses on a generic representation, and in this he is supported by the remarkable capacity for synthesis that his pictorial language allows. The two figures are delineated with a few touches of pure color, a physiognomic reduction that corresponds to a greater expressive vigor.

Trento Longaretti was born in Treviglio in 1916 and passed away in Bergamo in 2017. He initially trained at the Brera Academy, but was forced to leave in 1939 to fulfill his wartime duties. The Second World War left an indelible mark on his artistic career. After the war, he was able to fully resume his painting career, frequently dedicating himself to frescoes, stained glass, and mosaics. He participated several times in the Venice Biennale and the Rome Quadrennial. Stylistically, he is an artist who belongs to the Corrente group, along with Guttuso, Sassu, and Vedova.

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