Lucio Cargnel - The Washerwomen

The urban landscape was already a popular subject in the Middle Ages and the Modern Era, 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.

Cargnel's works are created with a remarkable technique inspired by Impressionism. The artist aims for a naturalistic rendering but uses rapid brushstrokes, using hatching, to quickly delineate shapes and volumes. This allows him to capture the effects of light and atmosphere on objects and to instantly convey a landscape with precise meteorological and environmental conditions to the canvas. The entire color palette is based on a specific tone, consistent across the entire surface. The perspective grid is not eliminated, but spatial depth is determined exclusively through color shading.

Lucio Cargnel was a painter from Treviso, born in 1903 and died in Milan in 1998. His favorite subjects are landscapes, city views, streets, and squares. Born into the artistic family of Vittorio Antonio Cargnel, he inherited his father's exploration of light and the scenographic compositional structure of his work. Compared to his father's, Lucio Cargnel's color palette is brighter.

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