Andrea Vaccaro - Le moulin rouge

The urban landscape was already a popular subject in the Middle Ages and the Modern Age, but predominantly in an idealized manner. Scenes of city life became typical themes with a more realistic interpretation starting in the 19th century. It's worth remembering how, immediately following the realist movements of the 19th century, the Impressionists also placed great emphasis on the everyday, on everyday life, with a certain predilection, however, for the frenetic pace of the city, the crowds, the traffic, and typically bourgeois settings. In this city view by Vaccaro, the everyday aspect prevails, the frank and sincere realism of everyday life in a city setting. Human presence is almost entirely overlooked, and the artist lets the buildings and objects speak for themselves, protagonists of a direct narrative unfiltered by idealization.

Andrea Vaccaro's style in this cityscape presents a perfect fusion of realism and a delicate, expressionistic rendering of sensory details. On the one hand, the artist precisely describes the view in all its details, with a strong sense of the city's reality and the everyday life of simple life. On the other, his refined painting technique allows him to convey a sense of immediacy, thanks to a linework charged with atmospheric vibrations. Light thus reflects on objects, but without interfering with the precise description of reality, and the artist can modulate, with great naturalism, the shadows that appear on the walls and pavement. Vaccaro's sincere realism is also expressed in the choice of a compositional structure made of clear lines, in the deep spatial escape that follows the path of the Parisian street in a space constructed on multiple directional lines. The palette is composed of light, delicate hues that avoid any pictorial excess.

Andrea Vaccaro, born Pier Andrea Vaccaro (Pallanza, 21 July 1939), is an Italian artist and painter known for his abstract and figurative works, as well as for the innovations he brought to modern painting techniques.

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