Pamono Joseph Migneco, Figures, Watercolor, Framed> Work On Paper

Watercolor on paper, mounted on canvas. Signed lower right. Giuseppe Migneco, originally from Messina but who moved to Milan at a young age, was one of the leading representatives, along with Aligi Sassu, Renato Birolli, Bruno Cassinari, and Renato Guttuso, of the Corrente group, open to the European artistic avant-garde. Advocating socially engaged painting, he explores reality with a critical, objective, and historical eye. His characters, with their hard, square faces, marked by hard work and rendered in bright, strong tones, recall his native Sicily, with its violent, sharp features, but also the social realism of Mexican muralists. Framed.