Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART: Guerriero
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Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART
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Preferred Title:
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Guerriero
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Alternate Title:
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Warrior
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Image View:
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Overall work from the front right
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Creator:
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Marino Marini (Italian sculptor, 1901-1980)
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Location:
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repository: Museo di Marino Marini (Florence, Tuscany, Italy)
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Location Note:
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in the former church of San Pancrazio
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GPS:
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+43.771836+11.249975
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Date:
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1959-1960 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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Italian
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Style Period:
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Expressionist; Twentieth century
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Work Type 1:
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sculpture (visual work)
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Classification:
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Sculpture and Installations
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Material:
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painted plaster
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Technique:
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construction (assembling); modeling (forming); painting and painting techniques
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Subjects:
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abstraction; cycles or series; horse and rider
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Description:
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Executed in 1959, the Guerriero series expresses Marino Marini’s ultimate, drastic take on the subject of the horse and rider. In Guerriero, forms have assumed tragic aspects. A horse is crouching on its front legs, its neck and head stretched backwards, while the elongated figure of the rider on its back is thrust backwards into a dramatic fall. In this work, there is also the suggestion of a chariot. Both the animal and human figure appear fused. The tense forms seem to be the traces of a last, desperate gesture of escape from a fatal end. In the context of the Post-War years, Guerriero poignantly echoes the most traumatic experiences of the conflict. (Source: Christie's; http://www.christies.com/)
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Collection:
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Adjunct Module B: Italian Art
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Identifier:
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7A1-MARINI-MM-G-A01
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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