Renato Guttuso (26 December 1912 – 18 January 1987) was an Italian
painter.
His best-known paintings include
"Flight from Etna" (1938–39), "Crucifixion" (1941) and
"La Vucciria" (1974). Guttuso also designed for the theatre
(including sets and costumes for Histoire du Soldat, Rome, 1940) and did illustrations for books. Those
for Elizabeth David’s Italian
Food (1954), introduced him
to many in the English-speaking world. A fierce anti-Fascist, "he
developed out of Expressionism and the harsh light of his native land to paint
landscapes and social commentary." La Vucciria is a dialectal word and its
meaning is confusion and it is the name of one of the most famous market in
Palermo (Sicily). On one hand the author accumulate goods on the other
hand he values every single elements
showing the pink cut of the swordfish or
“mortadella” (Bologna sausage) or cheese, and everything has a
marvellous genuine smell, because the
palette is shining and make meat consistence,
vegetable flavour as the painter tasted them.
1. Guttuso was
a) An Italian writer
b) A Spanish painter
c) A French painter
d) An Italian painter
2. Guttuso
a) Doesn’t know English-speaking world
b) Only did painters
c) Also worked for theatre
d) Was a fascist political man
3. Vucciria is
a) Only the name of a Palermo’s market
b) Is the name of a famous
Guttuso’s picture
c) A picture about a barber shop
d) A picture about Sicily
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