THE FOURTH STATE: WHERE IT IS AND WHAT IT REPRESENTS
The Fourth Estate is the result of a long journey by Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo, who for the first time in the history of Italian art represents the rise of the labour movement in the social life of the country and does so as if it were inevitable.
The work is kept in Milan and I recommend you go and see it as soon as you can because Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo, an exponent of the pointillist movement, presented The Fourth Estate at the Quadriennale in Turin in 1902 and it has since become a symbol of the workers’ struggle.
The work was actually originally entitled The Workers’ Way, but at the last moment the artist decided to change it to what we all know today.