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...painted before the party high command ordered a change to "socialist realism." But Guttuso had progressed a long way from his first tortured attempts to illustrate the party line (TIME, Oct. 2, 1950). "Of all those who participate in the neo-realistic current," wrote the critic of Fiera Letteraria, "Guttuso stands alone . . . with his singular and exemplary force of composition." The public liked Renato's new work, too; most of the pictures were sold in two weeks...
...week's end Severino's pictures were a sellout, his schooling virtually assured. Said Italy's leading art weekly, La Fiera Letteraria: "There is an inspirational force and power of imagination here which we have never seen in other exhibitions of the kind." Gallery Director Chiurazzi immediately began making plans to send the show on to Milan and Paris. Severino took his early success calmly. Looking for the first time at the work of another successful artist, 70-year-old Pablo Picasso, he observed: "Why, he doesn't even know how to draw. He must...
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