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Against Mussolini - Art and the Fall of a Dictator 22 settembre - 19 dicembre 2010 Mafai (Part 1) - Fantasia - The Depiction of the Body The painter Mario Mafai's used an expressionist aesthetic to develop a critique of Fascism. The grotesquely inflated bodies of the conquerors are the visual antithesis to the lean, hard-shelled and powerful body of the Fascist (and Futurist) ideal. Speaker: Giuliana Pieri Credits: Website Design - George Frost Against Mussolini - Art and the Fall of a Dictator Mafai (Part 2) - Fantasia - The Troops Enjoy Themselves In his 'Fantasie' series, Mafai reflected on the brutal realities of war, much in the manner of Goya. The soldiers in the painting described are shown as sinister and spectral black forms violating women. By the time Mafai painted this work, the atrocities perpetrated by the armed forces of various belligerent powers against civilians would have been known, at least in part. Speaker: Giuliana Pieri Credits: Website Design - George Frost Against Mussolini - Art and the Fall of a Dictator Mario Mafai's "Fantasia" (Horrors of War) In his 'Fantasie' series, Mafai reflected on the brutal realities of war, much in the manner of Goya. The soldiers in the painting described are shown as sinister and spectral black forms violating women. By the time Mafai painted this work, the atrocities perpetrated by the armed forces of various belligerent powers against civilians would have been known, at least in part. Speaker: Christopher Duggan Credits: |