Alberto Sughi - Nocturne

The painting can be defined as a genre scene, that is, the depiction of an episode of everyday life that, apparently, lacks any significant element. These types of domestic subjects were long considered minor and only began to spread in Western art starting in the 17th century. Only with the development of 19th-century realism did everyday subjects become considered as important as historical or religious ones. The Impressionists, in particular, favored subjects related to modern life in urban, bourgeois settings.

Alberto Sughi's pictorial poetics recurs in most of his works. The depicted scene, in fact, displays a paucity of physiognomic details, of objective particulars that might identify the situation or even place it within a social context. Sughi's existentialist painting is not interested in external social reality, but rather in the inner reality of man, which the artist explores through his expressive means. The pictorial deformations that characterize his subjects are precisely the medium Sughi uses to express his existentialist anxieties.

Alberto Sughi, Cesena 1928 - Bologna 2012, always chose the path of realism throughout his painting career. However, Sughi's realism never had a social orientation; rather, its focus shifted to the human condition, to human solitude: this is why Sughi's painting has been described as "existentialist realism." In the 1960s, Sughi's realism was influenced by Bacon, presenting distortions in his subjects and spatial settings similar to those of the English artist.

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