Giuseppe Castellazzi - Venice, Riva degli Schiavoni

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 Giuseppe Castellazzi's city views, as in the present work, the everyday aspect prevails, the frank and sincere realism of everyday life in a city setting.

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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