Original artwork description:

Artwork in contemporary figurative style dedicated to the figure of Federigo Tozzi (1883 - 1920), whose portrait dominates the painting that offers in the background a glimpse of the famous Torre del Mangia in his native Siena. Writer for a long time almost unknown, was rediscovered only years after his death and considered today, along with Italo Svevo and Luigi Pirandello, among the most important authors of the twentieth century Italian. His biographical events are very important because they are close to the plot of his masterpiece, "With eyes closed" (1919). Love, understood as an illusion that one can live only in dreams, with eyes closed, the difficult relationship with the father, the ineptitude, also typical of Italo Svevo's novels, the violence of nature and men are represented with a "cruel" writing that observes reality from the psychology of the character. These are the themes of Tozzi's masterpiece, which are also the main themes of contemporary Italian and European literature.

Materials used:

Oil colors on canvas

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