Ugo Guidi, Sheep (1950)

marble
Sao Paulo (Brazil), Private collection

Only six years are passed from the realization of the realistic Piglet but the sensation is to see, observing this 1950 Sheep, a work by another artist.
The animal represented, the most well-known meek animal, is definitively away from the academic canons that "kept back" Ugo Guidi from his whole artistic freedom. So this is one of the first works where the primitivism is more strong. First of all, the body of the sheep is not covered by wool, but by some little circles that seem scales rather than wool. The legs fall under the animal's weight and the neck is not well proportioned to the other anatomic parts. It seems that Guidi wants his sheep to become a pure form, to mix up with the marble block. But even if we can say that the academism is over, some years must pass by before the artist will manage to show all his whis of formal purity.

A project by
Federico Giannini

Museo Ugo Guidi
(Forte dei Marmi)

Associazione Amici
del Museo Ugo Guidi
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