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ALIGI
SASSU
The theme of the cross is typical of the iconography of
Corrente, as much as that of still lives and fusillades.
It represents the sacrifice of man, the pain of our
human and social condition, and the injustice of it. As
an ex convict, Sassu gets closer to the religious topic
not much driven by religion but by the implicit meaning
that depositions and crucifixions could acquire in the
fascist and war context. Even in this painting the
lesson of the stays in Paris of the previous years are
evident, when the social subject becomes the essence of
every painting in the style of the masters of the French
Nineteenth century.
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