{"product_id":"costantino-spada-paesaggio-2","title":"Costantino Spada - Landscape","description":"\u003cp\u003eLandscape has always been a central theme in artistic research, both as a setting, as a backdrop, and as a subject itself. The naturalistic depiction of landscape has been a major aspiration for artists of every era. Each historical period has offered its own interpretation of landscape, contributing to the evolution of its depiction: first with an exploration of space, through Brunelleschi's perspective in the early Renaissance; then with atmospheric rendering in the 16th century; and finally with the depiction of every single vibration of light on objects in Impressionism. Costantino Spada's interpretation of landscape is the fruit of the distinctly Expressionist inspiration of his pictorial practice. Costantino Spada's landscape is therefore synthetic and abstract, a place where it is not the sensory naturalistic elements that prevail, but the emotional and spiritual elements of interiority.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n \u003cp\u003eThe work is a clear example of Expressionist landscape. Reality is interpreted in an extremely synthetic manner, with a remarkable reduction of sensory data. The representation is resolved entirely through color, whose application plays a clear structural role in arranging itself across different levels and reconstructing a complex space. The color is very full-bodied, and this characteristic allows Costantino Spada to explore the volume of objects even within a substantially two-dimensional surface. Compositionally, the painting is resolved through overlapping horizontal layers of color, where the contrast between the intense green of the lower part and the purplish blue of the upper part produces a suggestive play of light.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n \u003cp\u003eCostantino Spada was a painter originally from Sassari, born in 1922 and died in 1975. He made a name for himself at a young age and, along with Libero Maledina, is considered one of the most promising Sardinian painters. Between the 1940s and 1950s, he developed his style, based on realist themes but interpreted with a predominantly expressionist approach. He later also devoted himself to religious subjects. In 1940, he frescoed the Sacristy of San Donato with a story of Christ. He later also worked on the churches of San Giuseppe, San Sisto, Servi di Maria, and the Archiepiscopal Seminary of Sassari, reaching the pinnacle of his artistic expression with the frescoes and paintings in the Church of the Sacred Heart.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cossu Roberta 3500","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56215735665026,"sku":"RCOS003","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0909\/7065\/3058\/files\/PHOTO-2020-06-18-15-38-56.jpg?v=1768428653","url":"https:\/\/cjfh11-ee.myshopify.com\/en\/products\/costantino-spada-paesaggio-2","provider":"Venderequadri","version":"1.0","type":"link"}