Carlo Levi pittore iconoclasta

Autore: Guido Sacerdoti
In: Meridiana. 53, 2005
doi:10.1400/78424
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Abstract

Carlo Levi as an iconoclast Painter
Levi’s biography as a painter is illustrated from the point of view of the pictorial poetics expressed in Paura della pittura (1942). In this essay the relationship between freedom, fear and painting is investigated in dispute with avant-garde movements of the XX century, that Levi himself considered as mere mirror of idolatrous times. Such interpretation is based on some typical aspects of Jewish culture: individualism and iconoclasm. This leads to identify several «periods» in Levi’s wide pictorial production, each characterized by discontinuity and persistence: an early period in Turin, a «Parisian period», a «political confinement period » and a «post- second war social realistic period».