Mario Illusi (Millus) - Landscape

Landscape has always been a central theme in artistic research, both as a setting, as a backdrop, and as a subject itself. The naturalistic depiction of landscape has been a major aspiration for artists of every era. Each historical period has offered its own interpretation of landscape, contributing to the evolution of its depiction: first with an exploration of space, through Brunelleschi's perspective in the early Renaissance; then with atmospheric rendering in the sixteenth century; and finally with the depiction of every single vibration of light on objects in Impressionism. In the pictorial production of the Livorno-born Millus, heavily influenced by the Macchiaioli and post-Macchiaioli traditions, the landscape depiction exhibits the perfect union between descriptive realism and an impressionistic rendering of sensory data.

Millus's style presents a perfect fusion of realism and a delicate, impressionistic rendering of sensory details. On the one hand, the artist precisely describes the view in all its details, with a strong sense of a candid landscape, steeped in the everyday life of simple life. On the other, his refined painting technique allows him to convey a sense of immediacy to the canvas, thanks to rapid brushstrokes charged with atmospheric vibrations. Light thus reverberates on objects, but without interfering with the precise description of reality. The entire view is thus characterized by a clear luminosity that is revealed, by contrast, in the play of shadows. The use of a palette of soft, delicate colors also serves this purpose.

Millus is the pseudonym of Mario Illusi, a Livorno-born artist born in 1925 and died in 1992. Like all artists from the Livorno area, Millus's pictorial output was predominantly landscape. His language is influenced by the Macchiaioli movement, but his penchant for capturing realism prevails.

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