Pizzi Contreras - Flower Field Market

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 painter Pizzi Conteras's favorite subjects are popular figures of elderly farmers and factory workers, in a realistic celebration of their daily lives.

The women, men, and faces portrayed by Pizzi Contreras are distinguished by the artist's unique interpretation, which begins with a solid foundation of realism, but accentuates this concreteness through expressive distortions. First, the plasticity of the figures is enhanced, almost resembling stone masks, sculpted by time. Individual features seem to give way to an iconic character, while the faces take on a hieratic fixity. The statuesque quality of Pizzi Contreras's figures is further enhanced by the artist's highly textured paint, which recalls stone, or rather, earth. Indeed, the palette favors the warm, brown colors of the faces, contrasting with neutral gray backgrounds.

The artist Pizzi Contreras is famous for his pictorial production based on realism, committed to describing the conditions of work in the fields or in factories, but transposed by the painter in an elegant expressionist guise.

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