Rebel Angel with White Moon
Technical Details
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Title
Rebel Angel with White Moon -
Author
Osvaldo Licini -
Year
1955 -
Dimensions
cm 57 x 90 -
Inventory
5477 -
Room
44
The work, created in 1955, picks up a pattern (the character-angel bursting onto the scene from the right) elaborated from Licini’s prehistoric L’Arcangelo of 1919, then insistently taken up again from 1946 and repeated in the 1950s, up to that 1954 Rebel Night Angel that is almost compositionally identical (except for the lack of moon) to the painting in the Jesi collection, which, moreover, is all finely played out in a range of light earths.
A 1988 study (Pirani) recapitulated for the first time the cultural sources (Blake, Baudelaire, Lautréamont, Cocteau) and meaning of Licini’s Angel with its ambivalence between figure of the law, heavenly messenger and demon bearer of the divine.
