Carlo Montesi - Circus Figures

Since the 19th century, when painting began to explore various aspects of bourgeois life, the circus world has been a theme explored by various artists. With the development of Symbolist and Expressionist movements between the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the figure of the acrobat, circus performer, or mask began to gain popularity, as it played a key role in the development of complex iconographies with hidden and mysterious meanings. Examples include the figures of artists and harlequins immortalized by Picasso during his "blue" and "rose" periods. During the 1970s and 1980s, it became a true genre, practiced by many painters, who focused their interest primarily on the figure of the clown.

Carlo Montesi's pictorial language draws inspiration from a lively naturalism. He possesses a remarkable technique that allows him to effortlessly reproduce objects, delineate them sculpturally, and achieve spatial depth. Carlo Montesi is an artist with a very classical bent, but his brushstrokes possess a certain impressionistic verve that gives his works an ethereal lightness, despite a markedly plastic exaltation of the subjects. This is also contributed to by his penchant for light colors, always centered on brilliant hues, through which he captures sudden flashes of light. Space is always composed in perfect balance, in which the object becomes the absolute protagonist.

Carlo Montesi is a painter whose work focuses primarily on still lifes and genre scenes. He approaches art in a very classical manner, with a soft naturalism tempered by a lively, impressionistic style.

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