L’onda lunga del medioevo nell’arte contemporanea, in particolare nella pittura

Abstract

This paper seeks to explore the interesting connection between medieval art and contemporary art, particularly in painting. The different characteristics of medieval art are also millenary instances that will see syn-thesis in the painting of Antonello da Messina. With him, a new era opens up. It will last until the threshold of the contemporary. However, from the work of Henri Rousseau onwards up to Wharol (with his pop icons) and Anish Kapoor (for his obsessive search for the purity of colour) we will see how certain artistic codes of mediaeval art are recovered and return to in-spire many contemporary artists who, in a secular key, return, consciously or unconsciously, to draw on that infinite reservoir of suggestions, and even religious images, called mediaeval art.

Keywords

• medioevo
• arte contemporanea