Francesco Giordano - Still Life

The "Still Life" genre emerged in the early 17th century. It consists of compositions of inanimate subjects, most often flowers or fruit. While initially it was an opportunity for painters to attempt a photographic reproduction of reality, with contemporary art the "Still Life" also becomes a way of interpreting reality, as it did for the Cubists or Giorgio Morandi.

In this painting, Francesco Giordano demonstrates how his pictorial language is dedicated to faithfully transposing reality onto the surface of the work. His primary interest is in the plastic, modeled, and turned qualities, which are softened by a subtle painterly quality just enough to blend into the atmosphere. Otherwise, the subject stands out clearly, with hyperrealist clarity. Indeed, we see a desire to objectively convey onto the canvas, with intense clarity, the sensory data the painter has before his eyes. All this is possible because the artist possesses a remarkable technique, reminiscent of Flemish painting, in the precision with which he reproduces various materials and surfaces, and the effects of light falling on them.

As we can see from the analysis of this work, Francesco Giordano stands out for his high level of academic training, through which he manages to obtain an extraordinary rendering of reality.

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