Giorgio Silvestri - Venetian Houses

Landscape has always been a central theme in artistic research, both as a setting, as a backdrop, and as a subject itself. The naturalistic depiction of landscape has been a major aspiration for artists of every era. Each historical period has offered its own interpretation of landscape, contributing to the evolution of its depiction: first with an exploration of space, through Brunelleschi's perspective in the early Renaissance; then with atmospheric rendering in the sixteenth century; and finally with the depiction of every single vibration of light on objects in Impressionism.

The work is a clear example of an Expressionist landscape. Reality is interpreted in an extremely synthetic manner, with an exercise in reduction that seeks to reach the purest essence of the landscape. The surface is completely two-dimensional, with almost no spatial depth. The brushstrokes delineate the forms in a very instinctive manner. Delving even further into detail, we can see how Silvestri depicts the Venetian landscape with a series of almost gestural marks, creating a dynamic impasto that transfigures, through pictorial overlay, his perception of the city. Thus, the application of color is light, and although the language used in this work is synthetic and Expressionist, Silvestri's vision remains connected to phenomenal reality, to its vibrations of light and atmosphere, in a pictorial process that takes the premises of Impressionist and plein air art to their extreme.

As we can see from the analysis of this work, in Giorgio Silvestri's pictorial production the landscape is the absolute protagonist in an original expressionist/symbolist interpretation.

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