The Body and the Angel

Giuliano Collina1993

Details

Title: The Body and the Angel
Creator Lifespan: 1938
Creator Nationality: Italian
Creator Gender: Male
Creator Birth Place: Intra, Verbania
Date: 1993
Provenance: Private Collection
Physical Dimensions: w520 x h195 cm
Painter: Giuliano Collina
Description: The subject of this large triptych is the body (of Christ, dead and on the ground), which occupies the center panel longitudinally, and the angel in the right panel. The angel is vertical and in the process of ascending. The figures are textured and are made with earth, placed, thick and pasty, on the canvas. Consistent with his other works of the same period, this painting has an almost Informalist expression, in which the tension between figuration and its opposite, between the suggestion of anthropomorphic shapes and the references to profiles of rivers, lakes, landscapes is palpable. Even the color scheme, dense earthy brown and red tones, accentuates this dichotomy. Currently not on display.
Type: painting
Rights: © Archivio fotografico Museo Diocesano, Milano
Medium: mixed media on canvas

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