After the elections

Brajo Fuso
oil on canvas
1946

This artwork stemming from Brajo Fuso’s pictorial debuts is an ingenious naif with expressionist overtones recalling the fauvist movement and incorporating Northern European formalism and chromatic tones. The artist’s early works recount his first-hand experiences as a young man: war and street protest, real and imaginary characters, the daily life of a city. The overall impression is of an irrational immediacy expressed through an eccentric figurative representation derived from the avant-garde COBRA movement (which emerged in 1948) including deformations reminiscent of George Grosz and bizarre elements echoing Enrico Baj’s idiosyncratic style.