The National Gallery of Modern Art of Rome is the museum where the Eternal City shows its modern side, a place where the collection covers a period from the mid of the XIX century up to the 60's and 70's. For the romans and tourists, accustomed to the Coliseum or the Renaissance age, to know that in the Eternal City there is a magnificent modern and contemporary art collection can almost sound a bit weird. Even a local tour guide like me could be fascinated by works of art which explain how Rome is not only ancient or sacred...

But I assure you that the style, the manner, willingness, and motivation in making art in the centuries immediately preceding have their own charm. For example, entering this gallery, the origin of which dates back to 1883, when we had the need to equip Rome, the new capital of the Kingdom of Italy, to a structure capable of housing the works of contemporary artists, for the times we have works of art by big names such as: Canova, Tenerani, Hayez, Morelli, Monet, Van Gogh... And among the masterpieces that are useful to understand the history of the art here is a work of Jackson Pollock, Watery Path. Looking it we can understand everything about his personal style, that will bring in other artists to follow his same steps. There are not human figures or recognizable objects. This is not a figurative art, as that one which made the Italy beautiful in the Renaissance age. Only a series of signs and colours arising from the act free of his hand. An art-type of gestures, in which the american artist would not take the time to create, such as painters of the past, for example, in the construction of a stretch studied.

Pollock used his hand and his arm as a tool, in an impulsive strong way in order to create, almost throwing the color or causing it to drip, these forms, signs and so amazing. If you notice better the edges of the media seem almost to do not contain lines and signs, that would almost come out, by continuing past. No real frame or the edge, nothing that can stop the will, the gesture, the fury and the intention of Pollock. Very full, with a completely covered background, in which all the space is occupied. This is the art of the artist that in the years ’50 and in addition changed the art (there is for example another masterpiece here in this gallery that I suggest you to see, try to click here). And, also, one more reason to visit the extraordinary National Gallery of Modern Art of Rome.