Giuseppe Minardo - Gargano

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 this cityscape by Giuseppe Minardo, the everyday aspect prevails, the frank and sincere realism of everyday life in a city setting. Human presence is not contemplated, and the artist lets the buildings and objects speak for themselves, protagonists of a direct narrative, unfiltered by idealization.

In the urban dimension of Giuseppe Minardo's artistic production, a sense of straightforward, popular realism prevails, even though formally the artist leans toward a distinctly expressionist language. Indeed, Minardo works toward a pronounced synthesis of objects, achieved through the application of color. The shapes are roughly sketched, deliberately crude and synthetic, with a broad black line. Color then intervenes, constructing the landscape in an abstract guise composed of broad, fused areas of color.

Giuseppe Minardo was a Sicilian painter, known for his artistic production inspired by rural and peasant life. The realistic dimension of his subjects blends perfectly with a synthetic and powerfully expressionistic style.

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