Dupré - Tuscan countryside

Landscape 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 constant aspiration for painters throughout history. 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. The Tuscan countryside is a favorite subject for the artist Duprè, who, throughout his work, reiterated this subject to develop his essentially expressionist language.

In his depiction of the Tuscan landscape, Duprè employs an extremely synthetic approach, bordering on expressionism. Each element is reduced to its essentials, starting with the space, which becomes two-dimensional and folded in on itself. Objects are extremely few and sparse, identified by a sharp black line, yet vibrant with life and existentialism. This line describes elementary volumes, which, in turn, are made vibrant by the artist's complex brushstrokes. Duprè's brushstrokes are dense and textured, arranged layer upon layer in a Cezanne-like exploration of the elements. Even his choice of color is based on a tendentially expressionist approach, with a clear predominance of brown and warm tones that have a clear symbolic and spiritual value tied to the earth.

Duprè, the Tuscan painter who created this painting, can be considered a landscape painter who expressively forces reality, synthesizing it and reducing it to the essential, in a constant search for a spiritual poetics of the countryside that surrounds him.

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