Carlo Monti - Still Life

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 experiment with naturalistic or photographic reproductions of reality, with contemporary art, the "Still Life" also became a way of interpreting reality. Indeed, as happened, for example, in the Cubist avant-garde or in Giorgio Morandi, the in-depth exploration of objects was aimed at a conceptual representation, taken beyond the mere sensory aspect.

The style of the painter Carlo Monti is highly recognizable, both in his landscapes and still lifes. Color plays a key role, constructing objects in a fundamentally two-dimensional space where the flattened forms conceal their volume. Carlo Monti, in fact, is primarily interested in the application of color, through which he synthesizes the figures and the space they interact with, with textured brushstrokes charged with dense color. Light intervenes, and the painter captures its vibrations by adding thick brushstrokes of white. Monti's interpretation is halfway between an impressionistic immediacy and an already expressionist desire for synthesis.

Carlo Monti, originally from Arona, trained at the Brera Academy's nude school and in his friend Usellini's studio. He was an artist who lived and worked in relative isolation, following his own inner voice and shunning groups, currents, and schools. His participation in solo and group exhibitions was at the request and invitation of gallery owners themselves.

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