Ettore Leonardi - The Cranes

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 major aspiration for artists of every era. 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 sixteenth century; and finally with the depiction of every single vibration of light on objects in Impressionism.

Ettore Leonardi's pictorial language is distinguished by a seamless fusion of classical tradition and contemporary sensibility. Especially in his landscape paintings, the artist gives free rein to contemporary demands, reaching heights of expressionist language. In his views, always sweeping and shot from far away, the artist subjects the data of tangible reality to a heightened pictorial synthesis. Nature is minimized in a subtle, calligraphic style, richly arabesqued and dark, which stands out against a monochrome background, vibrant with a shifting, nuanced light. This is a decidedly lyrical, if not downright spiritual, interpretation of landscape painting, grounded in the expressive qualities of color and line, rather than form.

Ettore Leonardi was a landscape painter born in 1916 and died in 1999.

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