The “golden Twenties” or happy twenties were a time of prosperity and progress so vertiginous that it filled society with optimism, prompting extremely ambitious projects to be carried out. In New York this furor could be appreciated better than anywhere else, as

The ode to pictorial values proclaimed by post-pictorial abstraction finds in the monochrome paintings of Joseph Marioni a magnificent heir. Among the painters that the American artist Joseph Marioni admits to admire are Matisse, Bonnard, Van Gogh, O’Keeffe or Marc Rothko… Although