Novecento Italiano
ノヴェチェント・イタリアーノ / 1922–1943 / Style / Figurative Painting
Mouvement qui, après la dissolution des avant-gardes, voulut revenir au volume et au calme du classicisme italien. Corps simplifiés et robustes, terres sourdes et compositions fortement frontales devinrent le vocabulaire de l'architecture publique et de la peinture murale de l'entre-deux-guerres. Exemple majeur du « retour à l'ordre », qu'il faut lire aussi dans sa proximité avec le régime.
Corps simplifiés et robustes / Compositions fortement frontales / Coloris de terres sourdes / Volumes évoquant la sculpture classique
Entrée du dictionnaire
- Usages idéaux
- 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
- Typographie
- Roman capitals cut to classical proportion and spaced as though incised, aligned to the axis of the figure.
- Composition
- Frontal and symmetrical, the figure centred and cut at the knee, the ground a plain plane with no incident.
- Matière
- Fresco-like matte surfaces in ochre, terracotta and stone grey, lit so that mass is modelled and almost nothing casts a shadow.
- Précaution
- 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.
- Pour approfondir
- Margherita Sarfatti's leadership / The context of the return to order / Its extension into public murals