The Nuns

The revival of Boccioni's plastic concerns, through his adherence to the so-called second Futurism led by Fillia and Prampolini, meant for Rosso a search for pure forms in which he explicitly declared his attention to the least conformist European culture, from Archipenko to Zadkine, from Lipchitz to Moore, emphasising above all, in international culture, the great freedom in transcribing anthropomorphic canons and structures. Thus, while the painters who took up the dynamic stimuli of Futurism as epigones lost themselves in the graphic exercises of aeropainting, Mino Rosso devised interlockings of spare plastic structures, vibrant with restrained elasticity, and solidified the original expressive dynamism into vitalistically allusive images.