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Hostia

Nicola Verlato

Pasolini is represented plunging from a space in which Pelosi, his official assassin, a guard and journalists are present, to an allegorical, Arcadian place.  Here the young poet composes poems on his mother’s lap in the presence of his mentor Petrarca and another character, Ezra Pound.  Both are united in being  rejected by modernity.  The body falls through a crowded ring of naked bodies, executioners and vicims repesting the cruelty of the present, just as Pasolini himself portrayed in his later cinematographic works.  

Worker In Hard Hat and Gloves

Francis de Erdely 1904-1959

Francis De Erdely was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1901. De Erdely first studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest, as well as the Real Academie de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid and the prestigious Sorbonne and Ecole du Louvre in Paris. De Erdely’s technical abilities, brushwork, and composition were based in European classicism. Politics began to inform his work when Fascism began to gain ground in Europe. As De Erdely’s career developed, he became less focused on history painting and the themes of classical Antiquity. Subjects surrounding war, suffering, and human strength became present.

De Erdely immigrated to the United States in 1939. Living in New York and Chicago, he was hired to paint portrait of wealthy patrons. He also painted images of the American Scene. It was after his move to Los Angeles, when his mature work developed and he established himself as an American artist. He is best known for his figure-based paintings done in Los Angeles during the 1940s and 1950s of immigrants, laborers, dancers, and social outsiders. It has been argued that this period of his work relate directly to De Erdely’s own experience as an immigrant in a new country.