Ralph Fasanella: song of the city

Duration: 25

Year Published: 1980

Creator: Bowling Green Films

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: A film documenting the life and art of Ralph Fasanella, a self-taught painter born in Greenwich Village in 1914. Raised in a struggling immigrant Italian-American family, Fasanella grew up to become a school truant, laborer and union organizer before discovering his true vocation as a painter. Working within the broad tradition of social primitivism, the artist, through his detailed canvases, interweaves scenes of his troubled youth, urban landscapes, labor history and social-political causes.