Alice Bernardine Esders - Wildflowers

Flowers as an autonomous subject begin to appear within the “still life”, a genre that saw the light at the beginning of the 17th century. Later the attention of painters to the floral world, especially with the Impressionists, is becoming increasingly important, as it is an extraordinary opportunity to capture chromatic and luminous vibrations. This is how flowers are represented not only in vases, but also immersed in their natural landscape. If at the beginning of its history was a pretext for painters to try their hand at a reproduction photographic reality, with contemporary art the subject of flowers becomes also a way of interpreting reality. The work highlights a post-impressionist maturity of the artist Alice Esders. The composition, whether it is a vase of flowers or a landscape, is all compressed in the foreground, without granting any spatial depth. The painter's aim is not to report the sensitive data of the subject, but to grasp its very essence, its substance. To this end, the brushstroke, rich in material, which, despite the essentiality of the representation, fleshes out the objects, breaks them down into different planes, recording the vibrations of light and life on them. The sensitive data, therefore, it is completely overcome in a conception of pictorial making complex in which gestures themselves also play a fundamental role of the artist. From a chromatic point of view, the entire surface of the work is tuned according to a balanced range of colours of references and correspondences. Alice Bernardine Esders was born in 1907 into a noble Belgian family and is disappeared in Florence in 1984. She lived for a long time in Torre del Lago in Tuscany. His pictorial activity is evidenced by several works and since 1960 Alice Esders tries his hand at participating in prize competitions. This is the case of Rotonda di Livorno Award, where the first attestation dates back to 1960; the artist is still mentioned in 1962, when she wins the “Spinetti” Prize - equal to 30,000 lire of the time - from the Spinetti Gallery in Florence, and in 1963, year in which he moved to the city of Livorno.

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