Alice Bernardine Esders - Mill

The landscape has always been a protagonist in artistic research, both as setting, as a background, but also as the subject itself. naturalistic description of the landscape was one of the major aspirations for artists of every era. Each historical period has given its own interpretation of the landscape contributing to the evolution of its description: first with a research on space, through perspective Brunelleschi's in the early Renaissance; then on the atmospheric rendering in the Sixteenth century; up to the representation of every single vibration of light on objects in Impressionism. 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 Galleria Sp

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