Room 6. Italian sculpture during the years 1920-1950
Room 6. Italian sculpture during the years 1920-1950
Between the end of the First World War and the post Second World War period, Italian art underwent radical changes that affected expressive codes both in terms of formal and compositional aspects, and in the choice and use of materials. Sculpture, which retains a more solid bond with tradition, nonetheless reveals in individual choices a widespread and diversified originality.
The selection of sculptures presented in this room demonstrates the plurality of attitudes and the growing autonomy that individual artists demonstrated, in the form of two dominant currents: one private, concentrating on the study of everyday life, which finds expression in portraits; the other public, which instead takes the form of official commissions, requiring artists to turn their attention to statuary.