Giulio Scapaticci Oil on Canvas Italy 1973 - Fossil on the Beach 1973

Features

Artist:  Giulio Scapaticci (1933-2006)

Artwork title:  Fossile sulla spiaggia

Age:  Contemporary

Subject:  Landscape with Figures

Origin:  Italy

Artistic technique:  Painting

Technical specification:  Oil on Canvas

Description : Fossile sulla spiaggia

Oil on canvas. On the back there are the artist's signature, date and title of the work. It is the work of the Milanese painter Giulio Scapaticci, of the artists of the pictorial-political current who at the turn of the 1950s-1960s was defined as “Existential Realism”. Immediately considered an artist sensitive to existential issues, he began to paint the Milan of the 50s and 60s with its typical railing houses, the peeling windows that open onto a darkly colored urban landscape, the gray industrial suburbs and desolate, quartered oxen and fish hanging on nails. In the mid-1970s, he leaves Milan and moves to the Oltrepò Pavese, where his painting is transformed, goes beyond the previous dark and monochromatic introspective experiences and in his paintings appears a rural world made of more lively and luminous tones: farmhouses, still natures, still lifes, insects, rivers, resting sandy loops. Back in Milan, from the 1980s he returns to depict a more painful humanity, with insects that transform and settle to cover sensations of solitude and voluntary silences. The work proposed here is part of the production attributable to the years of Oltrepò Pavese, recognizable in this countryside near a typically Lombard farmhouse, along a canal from which a fossil fish emerges; the light colors and brightness add liveliness to the otherwise desolate scene. Work in frame.

Product Condition:
Product in very good condition which may show slight traces of wear; it may have undergone restoration work carried out by an expert.

Frame Size (cm):
Height: 92
Width: 82
Depth: 5

Artwork dimensions (cm):
Height: 70
Width: 60

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