Most of Hess’s paintings witness his dynamic life which was so influenced by the sad events of the two wars and represent a valid way to pick out his character and work, result of a right proportion between tradition and vanguard, and full of motifs alternating between realistic and abstract. The islandish approach meant for Hess not just a simple occasion of picturesque tourism, but rather it afforded him, in a direct confront with the Sicilian, to deepen his human sentiments of glory and misery, of love for the poorer classes and respect for life.