Artefacts

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Artefact Type:

painting

Description:
The first of Sironi's murals, marking his 'mural turn', testifying to Sironi's and other artists' effort towards creating a Fascist, public, and collective art. Produced for the 1933 Triennal, it is a composition on the theme of collective work, central to Fascist rhetoric.

Size:
m 10 x 11, 10
Creation Start Date:
1933
Artist:
> Mario Sironi
Current Location:
> Destroyed
Technique:
> Fresco

Tags: Urbanism Monumentalism Corporativism State art Totalitarian art New Man Consensus Collectivity Sacralization Totalitarian realism Muralism Totalitarian consent Aesthetic system or apparatus

Themes:

Mural Painting Public art