Giuseppe De Gregorio - Still Life with Fossil

The work is an abstract composition. "Abstract" derives from the Latin term "abstrahere," which means to extract or draw out. The process of abstraction, in fact, consists of eliminating the particular and individual aspects of an object to derive a universal concept. From Kandinsky to Mondrian, from Pollock to Mirò, many painters have pushed the process of abstraction to the limit in their works, paradoxically creating pure forms and pure colors that do not exist in nature, or translating their emotions and instincts into images.

In this work, executed with ink, we note Giuseppe Di Gregorio's lesser inclination toward Informalism. Instead, the artist chooses to govern the composition through geometric schematism. The idea of ​​starting from nature to arrive at complete abstraction remains, but in this case the artist leaves more precise reference points.

Giuseppe De Gregorio was a painter originally from Spoleto, where he was born in 1920 and passed away in 2007. He trained in his hometown with the Gruppo dei Sei, where he began his exploration of informal art in the 1950s, winning several editions of the Spoleto Prize. It was the critic Francesco Arcangeli who brought him national recognition. From the 1970s, De Gregorio began to develop his distinctive style, which began with the depiction of enlarged details of natural elements, while remaining within the framework of an informal aesthetic. All this has established him as one of the most important representatives of Late Naturalism.

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