Gianfranco Bardine - The Welder

Social themes in art began to gain prominence in the mid-19th century, coinciding with the spread of social questions throughout European societies. The work of painters such as Millet and Daumier, for example, favored subjects related to life in the fields, factory work, or strikes. In Italy, among the first painters to engage deeply with social themes were Pellizza da Volpedo and, in the contemporary era, Renato Guttuso.

Gianfranco Bardine is a painter of reality, consistently so both in his choice of subjects and their interpretation. Indeed, the artist selects almost casual situations, pure moments of everyday existence. There is no idealizing filter, and this intent is also reflected in the composition. The scene is photographically framed, with a rear-view framing, as if a hastily taken snapshot. All this further enhances the truthfulness and spontaneity of the depiction. Finally, even on a formal level, the composition is dynamic, full of vibrations, conveying the complexity of the human gaze.

Gianfranco Bardine is a painter who demonstrates his solid pictorial training, especially in the construction of the drawn structure of his works. His pictorial conception is linked to a coherent naturalistic rendering, strongly plastic, enlivened by a consistent poetics of realism.

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