Gianfranco Lapesara - Westminster Abbey Big Ben London

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.

Gianfranco Lapesara, Michele's son, draws on his father's artistic research. Even in his urban landscapes, his flair for vibrant and lively illustration is complemented by a wealth of folkloristic and popular details. His compositions feature famous squares and monuments, in this case a reproduction of Westminster Abbey in London. Gianfranco Lapesara's style is graphic and clean, engaging the viewer with the richness of the details, drawn with a thin black line. The palette, which focuses on vibrant chromatic variations, is also perfectly in keeping with the imaginative nature of the entire representation.

Gianfranco Lapesara, son of an artist, was introduced to painting at an early age in his father Michele's studio. At the age of 16, he attended high school and the Art Institute in Bari and then Viterbo. He later enrolled at the Academy of Visual Arts, specializing in chromatic symbolism. He was part of a group of Nordic painters with whom he studied and created several rhythmic works based on the "principles of the psychology of form and the search for the impossible." After a long introspective journey, in 1995 he joined a group of Mediterranean painters and with them he explored a different genre of painting.

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