His artistic production remains seminal for Italian art, in all its facets, from literature to cinema, from drama to linguistics. Opposed by the rebellious masses of Italy 1968’s revolts when vehemently pointing out how the real “rebels” were not bourgeois university students, but rather those working class policemen who stood in the street to stop their at times violent protests, Pasolini brought his view of society into art without letting politics vulgarizing it. A man whose vision of society was well ahead of the years he lived in, Pasolini was a dissident within the dissidents: expelled from the Italian Comunist Party because of his homosexuality, he was often ostracized by the artistic community for its aesthetic ideals. Known for his visionary iconography and his courage, personal and artistic, in tackling difficult subjects such as homosexuality, abortion, divorce and the tragedy of nazi-fascism, Pasolini was an intellectual whose ideals were difficult to digest even for his peers. Pier Paolo Pasolini: his death remains a mystery in the eye of many (smalloranges/flickr)
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