Giandante - Vase of Flowers

Flowers as a subject in themselves began to appear in still lifes, a genre that emerged in the early 17th century. Subsequently, painters, especially the Impressionists, increasingly focused on the floral world as an extraordinary opportunity to capture vibrant colors and light. Thus, flowers began to appear 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 also becomes a way of interpreting reality.

Giandante's pictorial language relies primarily on the expressive qualities of color. The drawing structure and perspective grid are completely dismantled to make way for the force of the brushstrokes. Indeed, the vigor with which Giandante creates his works is such that it borders on the gesturality typical of Abstract Expressionism. However, Giandante remains firmly anchored to phenomenal reality because, even with his colorful, highly textured brushstrokes, he manages to delineate the essence of the flower vase, imbuing it with expressive vigor. In this work, however, we note an accentuation of color synthesis. The rendering of the object is even more abstract, determined by large, contrasting brushstrokes. In this expressionistic context, as is typical of Giandante, color takes on aggressive, Fauvist tones, generating the violent contrasts sought by the painter. The meaning of color, in fact, goes far beyond naturalism and takes on a highly symbolic, evocative, and spiritual significance.

Giandante is the pseudonym of Dante Pescò, born in Milan in 1899 and died in 1984. He was a painter, sculptor, and partisan. The son of an industrialist, he left home at 16 to pursue a life as an artist.
wanderer. He was very active in the Milanese artistic environment and exhibited his works
works in numerous exhibitions. He participated in the Spanish Civil War.

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