Attilio Freschi - Still Life with Lamp

The "Still Life" genre emerged in the early 17th century. It consisted of compositions of inanimate subjects, most often flowers or fruit. While initially it was an opportunity for painters to attempt a photographic reproduction of reality, with contemporary art the "Still Life" also became a way of interpreting reality, as it was for the Cubists or Giorgio Morandi. This Still Life by Attilio Freschi, as noted in the catalog, was exhibited at the 1965 Fiorino Prize Exhibition at Palazzo Strozzi in Florence.

Attilio Freschi's pictorial style in this painting has strong affinities with the avant-garde German Expressionist work Die Brucke. The subject is subjected to a process of synthesis. The composition is simplified and stripped of any detail or three-dimensionality. The rhythm of the composition is determined by a line that gives rise to angular, square shapes. Freschi's work certainly displays greater composure than the Germans. This is evident in his palette, which uses colder, muted tones compared to the Expressionist frenzy. Furthermore, the entire composition seems to be characterized by a certain desire for order and balance.

Attilio Freschi was a painter originally from Castel di Sangro, where he was born in 1899. He died in Rome in 1987. Freschi was an artist who worked primarily in landscapes: solitary seascapes, anonymous buildings. He interpreted these places with a subdued expressionism, based on a bold black line and minimal, balanced compositions.

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