Guvyber - Venetian View

The painting can be defined as a genre scene, that is, the depiction of an episode of everyday life that, apparently, lacks any significant element. These types of domestic subjects were long considered minor and only began to spread in Western art starting in the 17th century. Only with the development of 19th-century realism did everyday subjects become considered as important as historical or religious ones. Specifically, we can note how, in its subject matter, this Guvyber work harks back to traditional 18th-century genre scenes, where the stroll of two figures in period dress becomes the pretext for creating an evocative Venetian view.

While the subject of this work, as we have seen, is rooted in a distinctly eighteenth-century tradition, Guvyber's interpretation of it is thoroughly contemporary. Indeed, the artist transforms the impressionistic, cursive style of typically Venetian genre scenes into an expressionistic, almost gestural style. Thus, the construction of the objects becomes even more synthetic and nourished by the force of gesture, with which the painter seeks to convey a more modern existential tension. In all this, it is clear how the Venetian view is constructed with rapid yet dense strokes of pictorial substance.

The artist Guvyber, as we can see from the analysis of this work, stands out for his pictorial research that draws on the eighteenth-century Venetian genre scene to give it a contemporary, expressionist interpretation that is absolutely original.

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