Gianfranco Autumnali - Untitled

The urban landscape was already a popular subject in the Middle Ages and the Modern Era, 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.

Compared to Gianfranco Autunnali's more usual work, based on objective figuration, this series of paintings reveals a more synthetic language. The painter demonstrates a desire to reduce and simplify his subjects in order to find a more immediate means of expression. This process of simplification is such that Autunnali almost approaches a naïve approach. This is already evident, compositionally, in the creation of an unconventional space. Traditional perspective is undermined in favor of a spatiality instinctively perceived in a two-dimensional dimension. In this context, the subjects, whether people or buildings, are rendered in a generic manner, following compositional rhythms rather than an objective physiognomic description. Even the application of color pursues these expressionistic intentions, with a mostly compact technique that almost follows a Gauguin-esque plat with bright, sunny hues. In other cases, however, especially in the urban landscapes, Autunnali indulges in a more accentuated pictorial style, charged with existential vibrations.

Gianfranco Autunnali is a Tuscan painter, born in Piombino in 1945, where he lives and works. He trained at the Free Academy of Fine Arts in Livorno, and in addition to being a painter, he is also a graphic artist and printmaker. He has exhibited his work in numerous solo and group shows, primarily in his native region, but also in cities such as Rome, Jesolo, Venice, and Salerno.

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