Alfonso Papi - Tuscan Sunset

Landscape has always been a central theme in artistic research, both as a setting, as a backdrop, and as a subject itself. The naturalistic depiction of landscape has always been an artist's aspiration. Each historical period has offered its own interpretation of landscape, contributing to the evolution of its depiction: first with an exploration of space, through Brunelleschi's perspective in the early Renaissance, then with atmospheric rendering in the 16th century, up until the depiction of every single vibration of light on objects in Impressionism.

Alfonso Papi is a painter whose style is strongly influenced by the Labronica School, post-Macchiaioli and post-Impressionist, and who focuses his attention on inland Tuscan landscapes. Papi's views necessarily begin with a recording of naturalistic elements, which the painter, however, manages to transfer to the canvas with his own sensitivity. This sensitivity is brought about by his immediate pictorial style, which delineates objects with a few splashes of color. The selected color palette is filled with bright hues, charged with emotional vibrations.

Alfonso Papi was born in 1931 in Castellina Marittima but lives and works in Livorno. His painting training took place at the Trossi Uberti Academy of Fine Arts, where he studied under Vitolino Fontani. Close to the Livorno School, he assimilated a style based on the maquis, but he reworked it according to his own poetics of landscape.

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