Loisy De Santis - The big poppies

Flowers as a subject in themselves began to appear in still lifes, a genre that emerged in the early 17th century. Subsequently, painters, especially the Impressionists, increasingly focused on the floral world as an extraordinary opportunity to capture vibrant colors and light. Thus, flowers began to appear not only in vases, but also immersed in their natural landscape. While initially a pretext for painters to attempt a photographic reproduction of reality, with contemporary art, the subject of flowers also becomes a way of interpreting reality.

The stylistic approach to the subject can be likened to the Naïve movement. The Naïve artist is by definition self-taught, someone who hasn't attended an art school but has found inspiration within themselves. Stylistically, this translates into figurative painting that offers a simplified interpretation of reality, with childlike and unwittingly primitivist overtones. However, even the Naïve artist, in his or her spontaneity, possesses a self-awareness that leads him or her to develop a very specific aesthetic language, distinguishing it from amateurism. Thus, in this work, artist Loisy De Santis tends to minimize the natural image of the poppy field, reducing everything to an immediate and instinctive representation. Yet in this simplification, the artist finds great expressive power, especially in the gestural nature of the brushstrokes. Thus, the qualities of a dense, creamy color communicate the artist's emotions.

As we can see from an analysis of this painting, Loisy De Santis is a representative of the 20th-century Italian Naïve school. Her desire to achieve a childishness in the representation is evident, with the aim of conveying the artwork with primordial values ​​of purity and innocence.

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