Aldo Fornoni - Untitled

Portraiture is one of the most widespread artistic expressions, especially in painting, but also in sculpture, throughout the ages. Portraiture is, first and foremost, a description of the subject depicted, an attempt to capture their physiognomy and individual characteristics truthfully and naturally. With the progressive evolution of artistic research, the physiognomic description of the subject has also been accompanied by a psychological one. Therefore, over the centuries, portraiture has also become a means of introspective investigation of the subject, their character, and their state of mind. The processes of abstraction brought about by contemporary art have contributed to this type of investigation.

Even in this tempera on paper, we can admire the technical prowess of painter Aldo Fornoni in his portrayal of the human figure. Fornoni is an artist capable of a completely naturalistic rendering, characterized by a high level of formal purity. The facial features are depicted with great truth in a soft and smooth form. The contours are undefined, thanks to a sfumato technique that allows the subject to interact naturally with the space. In this way, Aldo Fornoni's artistic practice is charged, despite the strength of tradition, with contemporary expressive expressions, whose modernity is discernible precisely in the incompleteness and indeterminacy of the subject. Indeed, the entire pictorial layer appears vibrant with light, and the space is unified in a coherent atmosphere.

Aldo Fornoni was a Milanese painter born in 1916 and died in 2011. He trained at the Brera Academy. Specializing primarily in nude figures, he taught life drawing for a long time at the Scuola del Castello Sforzesco and later in his own studio. He worked in the United States from 1950 to 1958. His preferred techniques were oil, pastel, and watercolor. He participated in numerous exhibitions in Italy and abroad. His works are held at the Yuma Historical Museum, the War Department in Washington, D.C., and in numerous public and private collections worldwide.

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