Cafiero Filippelli - Mirella Sewing

The painting can be defined as a genre scene, that is, the depiction of an episode of everyday life that, apparently, lacks any significant element. These types of domestic subjects were long considered minor and only began to spread in Western art starting in the 17th century. Only with the development of 19th-century realism did everyday subjects become considered as important as historical or religious ones. The artist Cafiero Filippelli specialized in genre scenes and portraits set in the interiors of humble homes. Figures captured at work or portraits of people of working class backgrounds are illuminated by the soft light of lamps to create works of intense realism.

The painter Cafiero Filippelli's style is built on a delicate lyricism based on the application of color in patches. His depiction can be described as essentially realist, with a keen eye for a humble and unassuming dimension. However, all of this is transfigured into a poetic and emotional sphere by Cafiero Filippelli's pictorial style. His brushstrokes are wavy, charged with luminous and chromatic vibrations. Color has a structural function, and the painter, with just a few synthetic touches, manages to give form to his subjects, ensuring immediacy and freshness to the representation. Fully consistent with the humble and sincerely realist spirit of his poetics, Cafiero Filippelli's palette, in his interior paintings, is distinguished by a predominance of warm, brown tones, through which the artist captures the sudden flickers of light from the lamps.

Cafiero Filippelli was a painter from Livorno who lived between 1889 and 1973. He trained at the Academy of Florence, coming into contact with Giovanni Fattori and developing his own language in line with the Tuscan Macchiaioli tradition. Cafiero Filippelli was a prominent member of the Gruppo Labronico and participated in several editions of the Venice Biennale and the Rome Quadriennale. His favorite subjects were lamp-lit interiors, but he also embraced crowded, light-filled seascapes.

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