Ugo Guidi, The Little Goat (1942)

marble, h. 67 cm
Forte dei Marmi (LU), Museo Ugo Guidi

Sculpted in 1942, the Little Goat is important to have some informations about the studies by Ugo Guidi. First of all, we can see that the Little Goat is realized in marble, the most used material in the Academies. Than, this work is very realistic: it was sculpted with a real model, following the Purist movement (the founders of the Purist movement were Lorenzo Bartolini and Pietro Tenerani, and both were techaers in the Academy of Fine Arts in Carrara, where Ugo Guidi himself studied and became a teacher).
The Little Goat is full of academism and so is far from the abstract solutions that Ugo Guidi is going to realize later. However, is a work by a mature sculpture (in 1942 Ugo Guidi was thirty years old), who as absorbed the academic canons and is ready to start a more personal poetic. The only particular that is transcending the realism of the goat is the basement on which the legs are standing: it is not a definite meadow but is a simple and raw marble slab.

A project by
Federico Giannini

Museo Ugo Guidi
(Forte dei Marmi)

Associazione Amici
del Museo Ugo Guidi
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