Erminio Girardo - Houses and Bridges in Comacchio

The urban landscape was already a popular subject in the Middle Ages and the Modern Age, but predominantly in an idealized manner. Scenes of city life became typical themes with a more realistic interpretation starting in the 19th century. It's worth remembering how, immediately following the realist movements of the 19th century, the Impressionists also placed great emphasis on the everyday, on everyday life, with a certain predilection, however, for the frenetic pace of the city, its crowds, traffic, and typically bourgeois settings. In this city view by Erminio Girardo, the everyday aspect prevails, the frank and sincere realism of everyday life in a city setting. Human presence is not contemplated, and the artist lets the buildings and objects speak for themselves, protagonists of a direct narrative, unfiltered by idealization.

Erminio Girardo's style presents a perfect fusion of realism and a delicate impressionistic rendering of sensory details. On the one hand, the artist precisely describes the view in all its details, with a strong sense of urban reality and the everyday life of simple life. On the other, his refined painting technique allows him to convey a sense of immediacy to the canvas, thanks to brushstrokes charged with atmospheric vibrations. Light thus reflects on objects, but without interfering with the precise description of reality, and the artist can modulate light and shadow with great naturalism. Erminio Girardo's sincere realism is also expressed in his choice of a compositional structure made of clean lines, in diagonals that recede to the right or left, revealing the artist's careful study of reality and a highly rational mind. His palette is composed of light and delicate hues that avoid any pictorial excess.

Erminio Girardo was born in Milan in 1924. He began to cultivate his passion for painting at a young age. He lived for many years in the Fermo area, and the landscapes of the Marche region are often the subject of his paintings. Erminio Girardo is distinguished by his simple and direct style, which embodies a genuinely realistic conception of art. In his work, sensory elements are not idealized but are reproduced as they are in reality. For this reason, his figurative language draws on life-like reproductions but is distinguished by a certain impressionistic style that brings vivacity and immediacy to his representations. Erminio Girardo passed away in 2019.

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