Dice - Untitled

Flowers, or plants in general, as independent subjects, began to appear in still lifes, a genre that emerged in the early 17th century. Subsequently, painters, especially the Impressionists, increasingly focused on the world of flowers and plants, as they offered an extraordinary opportunity to capture vibrant colors and light. Thus, flowers and plants were depicted not only in vases, but also immersed in their natural landscape. While initially a pretext for painters to attempt a photographic reproduction of reality, with contemporary art, the subject of flowers and plants also became a way of interpreting reality.

For the artist Dado, the images that come from his senses or his memory are often extremely concrete, with a tangible realism. We can see this in this plant composition, characterized by a solid drawn structure, in which the contours are identified by a clear black line. In this way, the objects acquire a strong plastic structure that determines their concreteness and clarity. As for the pictorial layering, the artist imbues these real presences with life through a highly complex and dynamic treatment of color, which at times even leads to a material distribution. Furthermore, Dado's chromatic coherence in this work is extraordinary, based on tonal gradations between green and dark yellow, which convey the poetry of an existence tied to the earth and the warmth of the sun. The union that occurs in this work between the concreteness of the structures and the solidity of the dense, material color in a painting that focuses on the authenticity of a rural world reveals a strong inspiration from the French painter Paul Cézanne.

Dado is the pseudonym of Don Agostino Dominoni, who was a parish priest and painter in the village of Pieranica, near Cremona. He was an artist devoted to fairly traditional genres, such as landscapes, still lifes, and floral compositions. His style tends toward post-impressionism, with some influence from the French painter Paul Cézanne.

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