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The Fourth Estate (painting)

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Year
  
c. 1901

Created
  
1901

Type
  
Oil on poplar

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Dimensions
  
293 cm × 545 cm (115 in × 215 in)

Location
  
Museo del Novecento, Milan

Artist
  
Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo

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The Fourth Estate is a famous picture painted by Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo in 1901, originally entitled The Path of Workers.

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Description

The painting is an icon of the twentieth century, showing striking workers (members of the fourth estate), and is in the "chromoluminarist" or divisionist style. Not only does it depict a scene of social life – a strike – it is a symbol. The people, with equal space being given to a woman with a baby in her arms, are moving towards the light. The painting represents the full development of this theme, which the artist already dealt with in paintings such as Ambassadors of hunger, Stream of people and a preparatory sketch of 1898, The path of workers. The composition of the painting is balanced in its shapes and vibrant in its light, giving the perfect idea of a mass movement.

Location

It can be viewed at the Museo del Novecento in the Arengario palace near Duomo square in the centre of Milan. An earlier version, however, was held in the Pinacoteca di Brera, also in Milan.

In film

The initial credits of Bernardo Bertolucci's 1900 are displayed over a zoom out of this picture.

References

The Fourth Estate (painting) Wikipedia


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