Antonio Del Donno - Untitled

The urban landscape was already a popular subject in the Middle Ages and the Modern Era, 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, its crowds, traffic, and typically bourgeois settings.

This work is part of Antonio del Donno's figurative production. This allows us to appreciate the artist's extraordinary technique in the perfect rendering of every architectural detail, achieved through a refined hatching technique that, leveraging the control of light and shadow, enhances the buildings' sculptural qualities. Despite the traditional, realistic style, the contemporaneity of these works is evident not only in the choice of subject matter itself, but also in the artist's compositional approach, which emphasizes the geometric and rationalist beauty of the lines and forms that compose this structure.

Antonio Del Donno is a painter from Benevento, born in 1927. He debuted in the 1950s, initially with a figurative style. By the mid-1950s, his painting had undergone a profound shift toward gesturality, devoid of any reference to figuration. After the 1960s, he also showed interest in New Dadaist influences, reusing figures or newspaper headlines. In the 1980s and 1990s, his style would become a combination of gesture and object.

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