DOI issue:
No. 329 (August 1920)
DOI article:Brinton, Selwyn John Curwen: The recent work of Ettore Tito
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21401#0022
THE RECENT WORK OF ETTORE TITO
Yet when he turns from the people's
life in Italy of to-day—from the happy
girls who, in a Sunday outing at Fobello in
Valsesia, are revelling in the fresh green of
the hillside and clean sunlight—back to
the, old Greek mythology for bis theme,
we find the same sense of vital energy,
the same rush of movement. His Cen-
taurs, who surprise and chase the flying
nymphs, recall the creatures of Virgil's
fancy, who crash through the Thessalian
forests, breaking the young brushwood. 0
His drawing of the human figure,
impeccable, undismayed before any diffi-
culties of foreshortening, serves him here
in good stead ; as it does in those decora-
tive themes for the Villa Berlinghieri at
6
Rome which illustrate a new expression
of his creative art. 0 a a 0
For Tito's genius in art is essentially
creative ; he is never at a loss, never idle,
his joy in his work, like its outflow, is
unfailing. This is just what that brilliant
critic, Ugo Ojetti, writing the prefatory
note to the recent exhibition of Tito's
paintings in the Galleria Pesaro at Milan,
seems to have in view when he calls him
one of the few " pittori pittori " (painters
to whom their own art suffices) who are
left in Italy. " So many thinkers, philo-
sophers, apostles, lecturers, antiquarians,
geometricians, warriors, are busied to-day
in laying to with the brush upon the canvas
that this old race of the pittori pittori,
Yet when he turns from the people's
life in Italy of to-day—from the happy
girls who, in a Sunday outing at Fobello in
Valsesia, are revelling in the fresh green of
the hillside and clean sunlight—back to
the, old Greek mythology for bis theme,
we find the same sense of vital energy,
the same rush of movement. His Cen-
taurs, who surprise and chase the flying
nymphs, recall the creatures of Virgil's
fancy, who crash through the Thessalian
forests, breaking the young brushwood. 0
His drawing of the human figure,
impeccable, undismayed before any diffi-
culties of foreshortening, serves him here
in good stead ; as it does in those decora-
tive themes for the Villa Berlinghieri at
6
Rome which illustrate a new expression
of his creative art. 0 a a 0
For Tito's genius in art is essentially
creative ; he is never at a loss, never idle,
his joy in his work, like its outflow, is
unfailing. This is just what that brilliant
critic, Ugo Ojetti, writing the prefatory
note to the recent exhibition of Tito's
paintings in the Galleria Pesaro at Milan,
seems to have in view when he calls him
one of the few " pittori pittori " (painters
to whom their own art suffices) who are
left in Italy. " So many thinkers, philo-
sophers, apostles, lecturers, antiquarians,
geometricians, warriors, are busied to-day
in laying to with the brush upon the canvas
that this old race of the pittori pittori,