{"product_id":"carlo-socrate","title":"Carlo Socrate - Still Life","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe \"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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n \u003cp\u003eThe painter Carlo Socrate's interpretation of this still life is resolved through a pictorial style balanced between realism and an expressionistic rendering of the subject. Socrates, in fact, is faithful to the sensory data before his eyes and presents it to us as it is, in its pure essentiality. However, the power of this representation, stark and genuine, is fueled by the artist's pictorial style, which, paradoxically, transforms reality itself in an expressionistic manner. Indeed, his painting is highly structural and synthesizes the objects through color. The fruit and the jug are rendered with a broad, dense brushstroke that highlights their essentiality, yet in a pictorial language vibrant with existentialism. What emerges is a stark and minimal image, yet extremely alive and dynamic. This type of representation reflects the profound influence Socrates received from the Roman School, in the sense of an expressionist and intimate pictorial style.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n \u003cp\u003eCarlo Socrate was born in Mezzana Bigli in 1889 and died in Rome in 1967. He studied in Florence and in 1911 settled in Rome, where he befriended Trombadori. In 1917, he worked on S.P. Diaghilev's ballets and collaborated with Picasso in Paris on the staging of E. Satie's ballet Parade. After the war, he joined the Valori Plastici group and developed a style that combined careful naturalistic observation with solid formal structure; he later turned to more intimate and vibrant solutions.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bandiera Fabio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56217913688450,"sku":"FBAN004","price":2000.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0909\/7065\/3058\/files\/PHOTO-2021-06-06-10-02-38.jpg?v=1768469451","url":"https:\/\/cjfh11-ee.myshopify.com\/en\/products\/carlo-socrate","provider":"Venderequadri","version":"1.0","type":"link"}