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Renato Guttuso was born in Bagheria in 1911. He moved to Palermo for high school and university and here he opened a studio and trained Group of Four with the painter Lia Pasqualino and the sculptors Giovanni Barbera and Nino Franchina. Having rejected every academic canon, he joined the artistic and anti-fascist movement Current. He moved to Rome where, due to his exuberance in life, he was nicknamed Unbridled Guttuso. Frequents the trendy Roman artistic environmentanti-twentieth centuryist' and maintains contact with the Milanese group of Treccani, Manzu e Sassu. Makes friends with Antonello Trombadori, art critic son of the painter Francesco, with whom he established an intellectual and political partnership that would last a lifetime. The painting that gives him fame is the Crucifixion, greeted with controversy by the clergy and the fascists for denouncing the horrors of war. A collection of drawings entitled Massacres portrays Nazi repressions such as that at the Fosse Ardeatine. He dedicates his art to farmers Sicilians who consider it an important part of the history of Italy. He alternates luminous paintings by Bagheria with portraits of peasant struggles, the sulfur miners, landscapes of cacti and prickly pears, portraits of men of culture. The woman, important in her private life, also becomes the protagonist in painting. Marta Marzotto she is his muse and favorite model, as well as the recipient of the famous Postcards. In '72 he painted the funeral of Get away, work-manifesto of anti-fascist painting. In '76 and '79 he was elected to Senate for the PCI. He died in isolation and upon his death he donated many works to his hometown. The adopted son, Fabio Carapezza Guttuso founds them Guttuso Archives. The tomb is the work of the sculptor Giacomo Manzù.
