Ugo Guidi, The scream (1976)

tempera, 50x35 cm
Forte dei Marmi, Museo Ugo Guidi

The scream realized in 1976 is one of the first works describing this theme. In 1974 an incurable disease was diagnosed to Ugo Guidi and in 1976 the first symptons of this disease started to make theirselves evident. The artist knows that his time to live is short and expresses all his anguish in a dramatic series from which this work is taken.
The face of this man is totally deformed, the right eye disappears (this will often happen in these compositions) while the left one has become bloodshot: the red is the only living colour of this composition. The mouth is completely black and emits a pain of sorrow. The outlines are black and heavy and the face of the protagonist, who symbolizes the author, has lost his natural colour and has become grey, a gloomy grey that will characterize the following realizations.

A project by
Federico Giannini

Museo Ugo Guidi
(Forte dei Marmi)

Associazione Amici
del Museo Ugo Guidi
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