Giulio Aristide Sartorio. The Precursor, 1927-8.

I got a slap yesterday from an art critic who pointed out that we celebrate the artistic innovators of each era who were in fact the outliers of their time. Their supposed greatness and influence was per force not recognized until later, with hindsight. That is the nature of avant-garde! This type of art is ignored now but was much more common in the 1920s than futurism, purism or art deco, which have become shorthand for that age.

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