Alfredo Scocchera - Courtyard

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 been a major aspiration for artists of every era. 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 sixteenth century; and finally with the depiction of every single vibration of light on objects in Impressionism.

The artist Alfredo Scocchera is an excellent representative of a broadly classical style of painting. The aim of his art is to achieve a completely naturalistic rendering and a faithful and truthful recording of sensory information. He achieves these results in his representation thanks to his extraordinary painting technique, which captures every single detail of his subject. But this is not the only thing that makes Scocchera a great painter: his lightness of touch is also fundamental, as he subtly blurs objects, blending them naturally into space. Scocchera's impeccable naturalism, however, does not prevent him from infusing painterly touches that make his representations more alive and less static. Alfredo Scocchera's landscape work, in fact, is distinguished by a delicate fusion of naturalism and a lyrical sense in the depiction of reality. Starting from a faithful recording of sensory information, he employs a language tending towards impressionism, allowing him to capture every single reverberation on the canvas. His hatching, composed of short, dense brushstrokes, is thus aimed at immediately depicting a perfect and unique condition of light and atmosphere. All this is set within a framework of harmonious naturalism, where the landscape is the absolute protagonist of the painting, in a composition of highly lyrical value.

Alfredo Scocchera was born in Baselice in 1887 and died in Milan in 1954. He attended the Academy of Perugia, graduating in 1907; he then attended the School of Decorative and Industrial Arts in Florence. In 1921 he moved to Milan. Scocchera dedicated his career primarily to landscapes, first depicting the southern countryside, then the canals of Milan and the panoramas of the Varese area. His work was the subject of important solo exhibitions (Galleria Micheli, 1928 and 1932; Galleria Bolzani, 1945; Galleria Ranzini, 1952), and he carried out decorative work inside the Monumental Cemetery.

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