Giuseppe Castellazzi - Circus

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 constant aspiration for painters. 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.

Giuseppe Castellazzi's works demonstrate the artist's post-Impressionist maturity. The composition is entirely constructed through color, and the brushstrokes have a notable structural value. The painter's aim is not to capture the tangible details of the landscape, but to capture its very essence, its substance. To this end, the brushstrokes, rich in texture, intervene, and, despite the essentiality of the representation, they break down the space into different planes, capturing the vibrations of light and life on the subject.

Giuseppe Castellazzi (Cassano d'Adda 1909 – Lurago d'Erba 1998) was a painter who produced an interesting body of landscapes and genre scenes, executed with a remarkable technique based on patchy application of color and a composition of broad brushstrokes inspired by post-Impressionism.

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