Word: guttuso
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Renato Guttuso is one of Italy's most talented artists. He is also a member of the central committee of the Italian Communist Party. And like all creative artists who submit to the authority of the party, Guttuso has had plenty of trouble fitting his artistic conscience into the tight jacket of Red discipline. Last week Rome's Pincio Gallery was staging an exhibition of seven oils and 16 drawings which showed Guttuso's latest efforts to bring his art and politics into line...
...world's leading artists, a surprising number wear the Communist label in varying shades of red. In Mexico, Diego Rivera and David Siqueiros are all-weather Communists; France's Fernand Leger often parrots the party line; so does Italy's Renato Guttuso. Last week two of modern art's foremost painters, both avowed Communists, were displaying their latest approach to an age-old theme: war and peace...
Togliatti was followed by another speaker, Renato Guttuso, who had a message of optimism on the cultural front for the comrades. The Communist Party, Guttuso declared, could save European culture from American commercialism. "America," he added, "is the great leveler of European culture. An American publishing house which could lay claim to distinction for having published Steinbeck, now, for purely commercial reasons, has debased itself by publishing Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, a despicable book...
...Guttuso was quite happy about the Italian cinema and the Communist contribution thereto. He was disturbed, however, by the state of painting and sculpture. "We must have something that all can understand, some realism, but at the same time it must be something artistic-not anything like a Coke advertisement or the statues of the Sacred Heart...
...Guttuso had his facts awry. Harcourt, Brace & Co., which published Nineteen Eighty-Four, never published any Steinbeck books. John Steinbeck's publisher is Viking Press...