ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to outline – while being respectful of the unique expressivity of each personality – a common logos and ideological common ground that tied together the experience of three generations of artists. The Tommasi Family artists are each different in nature, in their vocations, and in the unique stylistic vocabularies that reveal them as completely autonomous creators. The common ground revealed by the exhibition was mainly the refusal of an homogenisation that led to a recurring conflictual relationship with critics and the official artistic milieu and which subsequent generations of Tommasi family artists have hardly found a way of sharing. It is therefore in the wake of Leone Tommasi's aesthetic and ideological orientation the authors would like to analyse the critical reception and the monographic exhibitions of Marcello Tommasi, Leone's eldest son, for whom his father's studio has symbolically represented the beginning of his creative adventure.
