Giacomo De Michelis - Apples

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.

In this work, inspired by the "Still Life" genre, we can also appreciate the remarkable pictorial quality of the artist Giacomo De Michelis. His language is largely based on the expressive qualities of color. The artist almost entirely eliminates drawing to construct the subject through a dense, dynamically hued impasto. Thus, we can appreciate how the entire space of the work is structured around a coherent chromatic palette of greens, reds, and pinks within a blue space, where the tones have a spiritual rather than realistic significance, lending unity to the entire composition. Formally, the painting is very rapid and expressionistic, with its bold, synthetic lines.

Artist Giacomo De Michelis, born in 1935, had a very adventurous life. Throughout his career, he frequented Fusco, Moretti, and Omiccioli, and had the opportunity to meet Dalí, Picasso, and other masters. He was also an amateur actor during the 1970s, appearing in films such as Luigi Comencini's "Lo scopone scientifico" and Mino Guerrini's "Gli altri racconti di Canterbury."

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