Novecento Italiano
ノヴェチェント・イタリアーノ / 1922–1943 / Style / Figurative Painting
Movimiento que, tras la disolución de las vanguardias, quiso volver al volumen y a la calma del clasicismo italiano. Cuerpos simplificados y robustos, tierras contenidas y composiciones marcadamente frontales pasaron a ser el vocabulario de la arquitectura pública y del mural de entreguerras. Ejemplo mayor del «retorno al orden», que debe leerse también por su proximidad al régimen.
Cuerpos simplificados y robustos / Composiciones marcadamente frontales / Colorido de tierras contenidas / Volúmenes que evocan la escultura clásica
Entrada del diccionario
- Usos idóneos
- Institutional identity that wants gravity without ornament, for museums, foundations and civic bodies, provided the political reading is faced rather than ignored · Figurative illustration and sculpture-led art direction in which weight and calm matter more than movement
- Tipografía
- Roman capitals cut to classical proportion and spaced as though incised, aligned to the axis of the figure.
- Composición
- Frontal and symmetrical, the figure centred and cut at the knee, the ground a plain plane with no incident.
- Material
- Fresco-like matte surfaces in ochre, terracotta and stone grey, lit so that mass is modelled and almost nothing casts a shadow.
- Precaución
- Taking the monumental frontality as neutral good taste: the same devices were built to speak for a state, and used without that awareness the work carries an argument its author did not intend.
- Para profundizar
- Margherita Sarfatti's leadership / The context of the return to order / Its extension into public murals