{"product_id":"mario-restaino-cavalli","title":"Mario Restaino - Horses","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe depiction of animals in art has ancient origins, even appearing in primitive cave paintings. For religious reasons, various types of animals appear in the works of various ancient civilizations. It was especially in the Middle Ages, within the International Gothic style, that animal depictions became widespread as true portraits from life, both within works of art and in notebooks of drawings and sketches. The presence of animals as subjects in art remained constant until the contemporary era. In this painting, the artist Mario Restaino focuses his research on the figure of the horse. A noble animal, a symbol of beauty and harmony, the horse has repeatedly been a prominent subject in the history of art. Since the fourteenth century, its presence has always been obligatory in battle scenes or equestrian monuments, and for painters, it has always been a challenge to represent it with anatomical precision and naturalistic rendering.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n \u003cp\u003eAs we can see in this work, Mario Restaino's language always moves within the realm of a frank realism, which, however, is cloaked by the painter in a delicate impressionistic lyricism. Indeed, the subject is depicted in an absolutely sincere manner, free from any form of idealization. The relationship with the viewer is direct, charged with strong expressive characterization. From a pictorial perspective, the application of color is extremely lively, dynamic, with impressionistic overtones. Thus, the depiction of the galloping horses is charged with vibrations that are not only luminous but also existential. The subject, then, in its profound realism, is transfigured into a more poetic dimension determined by its very being. The choice of colors should also be interpreted in this sense, which transcend the merely naturalistic, acquiring a symbolic and spiritual significance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n \u003cp\u003eMario Restaino is an important 20th-century Italian painter. His favorite subjects are clowns and horses. In his paintings, he developed a personal poetics in which the realistic interpretation of his subjects is transfigured by a delicate, impressionistic brushstroke.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cataldo Carlo","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56217904775554,"sku":"CCAT001","price":500.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0909\/7065\/3058\/files\/20210526_113202-copia-scaled.jpg?v=1768469341","url":"https:\/\/cjfh11-ee.myshopify.com\/en\/products\/mario-restaino-cavalli","provider":"Venderequadri","version":"1.0","type":"link"}