Marco Foscarini - Venetian Poetry

The urban landscape was already a popular subject in the Middle Ages and Modern Ages, 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 currents 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. Marco Foscarini clearly draws on the tradition of "Venetian vedutism" but recontextualizes it within his Expressionist vision.

The work is a clear example of an expressionist landscape. Reality is interpreted in an extremely synthetic manner, with an exercise in reduction that seeks to reach the purest essence of the landscape. The surface is completely two-dimensional, with almost no spatial depth. The brushstrokes delineate the forms in a very instinctive manner. Delving even further into the details, we can see how the artist depicts the urban landscape with a series of almost gestural marks, creating a shifting impasto that transfigures, in the pictorial material, his perception of the city. Thus, the application of color is dense and material, and although the language used in this work is synthetic and expressionist, the artist's vision remains tied to phenomenal reality, to its vibrations of light and atmosphere, in a pictorial process that takes the premises of Impressionist and plein air art to their extreme.

As we can see from the analysis of this work, the Venetian view is the absolute protagonist in the pictorial production of the artist Marco Foscarini, in an original expressionist/symbolist interpretation.

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