Portrait of the Mother
Technical Details
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Title
Portrait of the Mother -
Author
Scipione (Gino Bonichi) -
Year
1930 -
Dimensions
cm 40.5 x 33 -
Inventory
5458 -
Room
42 -
Signature
Scipione
The artist gave birth, together with Antonietta Raphaël, Mario Mafai and Marino Mazzacurati, to the so-called Roman School or “Scuola di Via Cavour” a movement engaged in a courageous attempt to move away from official art and regime iconography.
Fascinated by the production of artists such as El Greco, Velázquez, Tintoretto and Goya, and almost obsessed by the crumbling atmospheres of Baroque Rome, he elaborated a visionary and intensely expressionist style, constantly clouded by a sense of death and precariousness, conducted with a liquid technique played on intense and warm, predominantly brown colors.
In the 1930 Portrait of the Mother, his style is unusually less tragic and takes on softer, gentler forms. The painting comes across as unusually gentle and objective, made of a glazed, light material.
