Giovanni Bossone - Fonte Grande Ossola Anzasca Valley

The urban landscape was already a popular subject in the Middle Ages and the Modern Age, 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. In Giovanni Bossone's city views, as in the present work, the everyday aspect prevails, the frank and sincere realism of everyday life in a village setting.

Giovanni Bossone's style presents a perfect fusion of realism/naturalism and a delicate yet decisive impressionistic rendering of sensory details. On the one hand, the artist precisely describes the view in all its details, with a strong sense of urban reality and the everyday life of simple life. On the other, his refined painting technique allows him to convey a sense of immediacy to the canvas, thanks to rapid, smeared brushstrokes, charged with atmospheric vibrations. Light thus reverberates on objects, but without interfering with the precise description of reality. The entire view is thus characterized by a clear luminosity that is revealed, by contrast, in the play of shadows. The use of a palette of soft, delicate colors also serves this purpose.

Giovanni Bossone (1931–1985) was one of the most important representatives of the renowned family of painters from Ossola. He exhibited extensively, holding around ten solo shows a year at his peak, in various regions of Italy and abroad (he also exhibited in Buenos Aires, Argentina). He was primarily a painter of lyrical mountain landscapes of the Ossola Valley, intimate interiors of peasant homes, and still lifes.

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