Corrente's group

The Corrente group was born during the end of the 30's in Milan, thanks to the amesake bi-weekly magazine, directed and financed by the Treccani's. It was a magazine dedicated to cultural issues, in opposition to the fascism. It was abolished during the beginning of the second world's war, and, in 1939, became an art movement with artists like Ernesto Treccani, Aligi Sassu, Giuspeppe Migneco, Bruno Cassinari, Renato Guttuso, Emilio Vedova.

The intellectuals of the group advocated a passing of both the rhetoric that invaded the world of culture of that time, and of the closure imposed by the fascist regime. They were indeed inspired by the new European findings, starting from the Expressionism onwards, resulting in an art committed to many causes, often realist. The artists of the movement wanted to represent the subjects focused on their psychological introspection. So we can find deformed faces or caricatural elements and forms free by the contour line of the drawing.