Giancarlo Amurri - Corn on the Cob

Flowers, or plants in general, as independent subjects, began to appear in still lifes, a genre that emerged in the early 17th century. Subsequently, painters, especially the Impressionists, increasingly focused on the world of flowers and plants, as they offered an extraordinary opportunity to capture vibrant colors and light. Thus, flowers and plants were depicted not only in vases, but also immersed in their natural landscape. While initially a pretext for painters to attempt a photographic reproduction of reality, with contemporary art, the subject of flowers and plants also became a way of interpreting reality.

Giancarlo Amurri's style is rooted in the quality of his subjects, always drawn from a countryside to which the artist feels a strong connection. For this reason, the images that come from his senses or his memory are always extremely concrete, with a tangible realism. Indeed, compositionally, Giancarlo Amurri's works are always based on a solid drawing structure in which the contours are defined by a clear black line. In this way, the objects acquire a strong plastic structure that determines their concreteness and clarity. As for the pictorial application, the artist imbues these real presences with life through a highly complex and dynamic treatment of color, which at times leads to a textured, spatula-like distribution. Furthermore, the chromatic coherence of Giancarlo Amurri's works is extraordinary, always based on tonal gradations between green and dark yellow, which convey the poetry of an existence connected to the earth and the warmth of the sun. The union that occurs in Giancarlo Amurri, between the concreteness of the structures and the solidity of the dense, material color in a painting aimed at the authenticity of a rural world, reveals a strong inspiration from the French painter Paul Cézanne.

Giancarlo Amurri was born in Monterubbiano in 1929. He studied first at the Art School in Fermo and then at the Brera Academy under the guidance of masters Purificato, De Vita, Diana, Ballo, De Grada, and Cantatore. He devoted himself extensively to teaching, but never neglected his artistic research. Between 1984 and 1985, he traveled to the United States and France. More recently, he has also dedicated himself to designing sets for various Milanese theaters. Giancarlo Amurri has exhibited his work in solo and group shows throughout Italy.

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