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Vallon to Volpedo
January in Padua
In Fiumelatte from the railway underpass
Vibrant
The blue vase
The candle
The long wait
Medieval motif
Drawings for a fresco. Mary Magdalene at the foot of the cross
The woman of the emigrant
Idyll. The tree of Life
Portrait of Giovanni Cantù
Study of figures for spring idyll
May morning
The bridge
Portrait of peasants (Portrait of Signora Battegazzore)
Portrait of a peasant owner
Will be
The exit of the workers from the Pirelli factory
Night work at Termini Station
Piazza Caricamento in Genoa
Reflections of a hungry. Study
Strike
Ona city street
Tears
Painful reflections
To the Italian economic kitchens
I remember when I was a girl
The search for light. Study for central triptych image
Caryatids
Harvesting hay
The sower
Morning in the workshop
Going to the factory
Solitude
The sun
Hail Mary in transit
Robbery
Believers
Return from the alp
Maize on the farmyard
On the Ligurian coast (Sulla costa ligure)
Curious old women
San Martino d'Albaro
Maternal love
April morning
April sun
Midday in Manarola
The disk of the sun
Summer. Morning
Landscape. Study
Rainy day
Spring in Val Sassina
Viaticum
The melancholy of the sun
Pasture
The gray village
Landscape
The abandoned cart
Maternity
Adoration of the Magi
The way to Calvary
Penumbra
Suburb
Morning
Autumn afternoon
Morning
Figure of a Woman (Portrait of Violette)
The nostalgic hour on Mé-Nam
Portrait of Armando Mazza
House under construction

Tears

Giuseppe Mentessi

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Corso Leoniero, 2, Tortona

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Giuseppe Mentessi leads a life of privation to follow his passion for art. At the beginning of the nineties, he approaches the socialist environment, orienting his work towards the humanitarian ideals of the late nineteenth century. He turns to the divided color method with Lagrime, from 1898, often finding in the combined use of tempera and pastel the ideal procedure to open up to experimentation without giving up the robust plastic and design matrix of his work. A painting made up of only two hands clenched by irons trying to desperately shake a weeping head, combines the originality of the composition - in which the drama of the characters devoid of any physiognomic connotation is all congealed in the tension of the hands - the refinement of a chromatism extremely delicate, played on shades of browns illuminated by blues and whites distributed in very long overlapping and crossed previateschi filaments. Contrary to Previati, however, the dissolving of the contours does not detract from the volumetric consistency of the shapes, supported by the impeccable design that solidifies in the beautiful anatomy of the hands, to create a sort of centripetal motion that reinforces the pathos of the protective fatherly embrace. The subject is inspired by the bloody repressions of Bava Beccaris following the riots in Milan in May 1898.
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Title: Tears

Author: Giuseppe Mentessi

Date: 1898

Technique: Tempera and pastel on paper applied on canvas

Displayed in: Pinacoteca il Divisionismo

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