Repression (Bardi)

Repression (also known as Repressione) is a 19th-century painted in oil (115x141 centimetres) by the italian painter Mario Bardi, created in 1966, it has been part of the permanent collection of the Museo del Novecento in Milan since 1966.
Description.
The painting by Mario Bardi, belonging to the artistic movement of Magic realism, it is a work of social denunciation of the human condition. The work analyzes the exploitation of man, through iconography Bardi configures the protagonists who dominate society and the world, a feudal, pre-Enlightenment world, derided by laws and customs that are ironic when not ferocious of "repression". Which still survives in a predatory way hiding behind the tempting masks of hypocrisy. Mario Bardi's message rings alive and legitimate, innervating his painting.