Giulio De Simone - 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 that 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. All of this coherently reflects the inclinations of the painter Giulio De Simone, whose artistic career is closely linked to Impressionism. The present work, however, is part of a series of views dedicated to Venice.

The painting was created with a remarkable Impressionist technique. The artist uses rapid brushstrokes, hatching, to quickly delineate shapes and volumes. This allows him to capture, with every single brushstroke, the effects of light and atmosphere on objects, and to instantly convey a city scene with precise weather and environmental conditions. The entire color palette is designed to reflect the precise atmospheric conditions he wishes to depict. The Venetian subject, with its canals, lends itself perfectly to De Simone's hatching, with its interplay of reflections and reverberations. Compared to his Parisian views, these works display a more pronounced perspective.

Giulio De Simone is a painter born in 1936. He is strongly influenced by Impressionism, and much of his work consists of Parisian views that draw heavily from that style. In other works, however, he has also experimented with a more abstract, expressionist-inspired language.

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