The Abyss by Pietro Canonica

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THE ABYSS

Pietro Canonica

THE ABYSS

The secret is in that abyss that has never been sculpted by Canonica, if not in the reflection of their gaze.

The work represents a man and a woman in an embrace that seems to merge them.

The woman's long hair seems to envelop the man

the description

The general impact is represented by the fear of the two young people kneeling on the ground, looking towards a common point.

The criticism frames the image of the two lovers as a representation of the passionate love that overwhelms and drags into its fatal vortex, the abyss.

The world is summed up in the couple and the passion overwhelms and cancels everything around the desire to be together and love each other.

This image for me represents the way we fall into the abyss of love

LITERARY REFERENCES

Critics of the time read us an allegory of passionate love, others a more literary reference to Paolo and Francesca.

Often in contemporary art, the artist's aim, in fact, is precisely to make the observer participate in his own work.

ARTISTIC CURRENTS

PIETRO CANONICA

Pietro Canonica, born in Moncalieri on 1 March 1869, and died in Rome on 8 June 1959, was an Italian sculptor and composer.

Canonica was part of three artistic currents: Modern art: experimenting with new, more realistic visual forms Naturalism: it was characterized by the representation of subjects, human and otherwise. Realism: It depicted people of all classes in situations that presented themselves in ordinary life.

"The aim of the artists is to study the truth in its purest form, concentrating the greatest possible emotion on it".

-Pietro Canonica

THE MUSEUM

The "Pietro Canonica" Museum is the house-museum of the sculptor Pietro Canonica.

At the entrance to the Pietro Canonica museum in the Villa Borghese it is possible to admire a marble statue.

THANKS FOR ATTENTION!

Rosa Cesarano