Ugo Guidi, Totem woman (1972)

Indian ink, 50,2x35,1 cm
Forte dei Marmi, Museo Ugo Guidi

This is the second of the three drawings belonging to the 1971 series and represents the meeting point between the nearest to the reality and the most abstract. In 1972 Totem woman the abstraction and the simplification of reality is strong and the the study goes towards the formal purity.
In this work the face has become a solid and squadre block, without the curve lines that characterized the precedent drawings by Ugo Guidi. Some reality is still present in two locks, while the right eye disappears, the left one is closed and drawn only with a little triangle with round angles. The chin is a section of a circumference while from the right-bottom angle starts an arm whose hand is under the chin: maybe this is the most realistic detail in this composition.
With the 1973 drawing the reality disappears: there is only the left eye, the block becomes regular and symmetric, and in it there are only some circular signs.

A project by
Federico Giannini

Museo Ugo Guidi
(Forte dei Marmi)

Associazione Amici
del Museo Ugo Guidi
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