Francesco Ros - Fountain square

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 Francesco Ros's Milanese views, both the everyday—the frank and sincere realism of everyday life in a modest dimension—prevail, as do the bustle of the metropolis. Often, the human presence is overlooked, and the artist lets the buildings and objects speak for themselves, protagonists of a direct narrative, unfiltered by idealization.

The painting was created with a remarkable Impressionist technique. The artist uses rapid, hatching brushstrokes to quickly delineate shapes and volumes. This allows him to capture, with every single brushstroke, the effects of light and atmosphere on objects, and to instantly convey an urban landscape with precise weather and environmental conditions to the canvas. The entire color palette, from the road surface to the sky, is designed to reflect the precise atmospheric conditions intended to be represented in a perfect conception of plein air painting. As with the Impressionists, the perspective grid is not eliminated, but spatial depth is determined exclusively through the modulations of color. In this work, Francesco Ros also displays a more synthetic pictorial style, and objects are delineated with sudden painterly flashes. From a chromatic perspective, Ros always stands out for his palette of light tones and pastel shades.

Francesco Ros is the pseudonym of Francesco Rossi, a painter born in 1950. Almost all of Francesco Ros's paintings are dedicated to the Milanese urban landscape, with its canals, views, and squares. His style is characterized by an impressionistic approach, characterized by very light color tones.

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