The second significant artwork of the 20th century

The Fourth Estate, Il Quarto Stato (1901) – Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo

The second significant artwork of the 20th century is The Fourth Estate, a 1901 painting by Giuseppe Pellizza that depicts in – “MGM grandeur” – sepia-toned rows of handsome Italian workers marching toward a new dawn behind two men and a woman holding a baby.

This entry is part of a new series: “100 artworks that set the world on fire (while no one was watching)”, inspired by Wire’s 100 records that set the world on fire (while no one was listening).

See the previous entries here.

2 thoughts on “The second significant artwork of the 20th century”

  1. Mister Bijou

    If you watch Italian film director Bernardo Bertolucci’s epic visual poem Novecento (1900), you’ll see a scene which was directly inspired by Giuseppe Pellizza’s painting Il Quarto Stato.

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