Domenico Chianese - The Goat

Animal depictions in art have ancient origins, even appearing in primitive cave paintings. For religious reasons, various types of animals appear in the works of various ancient civilizations. It was especially in the Middle Ages, within the International Gothic style, that animal depictions became widespread as true life portraits, both within works of art and in notebooks of drawings and sketches. The presence of animals as subjects in art remained constant until the contemporary era.

This work is part of a series of artist's proofs in which Domenico Chianese showcases his skill in life drawing. The work has a sketchy quality, clearly a quick sketch. However, its immediacy enhances its value as a testimony to a Chianese different from that of his official production, more closely aligned with the reality of sensory data. The remarkable craftsmanship of this mixed media on paper lies precisely in the rapidity of the strokes, which with just a few lines manages to delineate not only the form of an animal and its volume, but also a tangible glimpse of the landscape.

Domenico Chianese was a Campanian artist, born in Villaricca in 1924 and died in Marano in 2002. He can be considered one of the protagonists of social painting in the Neapolitan area. Indeed, his work is tied to popular themes, inspired by work and everyday life. In this sense, Chianese developed his own expressionist language with distinctively concrete and realistic tones.

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