Michelangelo Furino - 2 Works Flowers and Fishermen

2 Works
Flowers and Fishermen

Michelangelo Furino's paintings largely fall into the genre genre, the depiction of an episode of everyday life that, apparently, lacks any significant element. These types of domestic subjects were long considered minor and only began to spread in Western art starting in the 17th century. Only with the development of 19th-century realism did everyday subjects become considered equally important as historical or religious ones. The Impressionists, in particular, favored subjects related to modern life in urban, bourgeois settings. In Michelangelo Furino's artistic production, however, we find many genre scenes inspired by the traditions and working conditions of his native Sardinia. Furino's world is made up of simple, almost marginalized lives, of popular characters, fishermen and gatherers, in traditional dress. His figures, though concrete, symbolically allude to a system of primary and archaic values. In this pair of works we can see how Furino also dedicated himself to traditional genres such as the flower vase, always interpreting them with his original style.

Michelangelo Furino's genre scenes, inspired by Sardinian traditions and crafts, reveal a highly creative expressionist streak in this artist. Iconographically, it's clear that this is a subject intended to depict an everyday life rich in archaic symbolism and a system of primordial values. Thus, while the interpretation recalls Symbolism, the execution of the painting further leans toward Expressionism, due to the remarkable synthesis of its formal rendering. The subjects are delineated in a simple manner, while the application of color is gestural, achieving a heightened pictorialism with highly expressive effects. Thus, the scenes appear almost dematerialized in a two-dimensional surface, where the vibrations of life are captured by the paint. Even in the floral composition, Furino maintains the same expressive force: he remains faithful to the sensory element to the extent that it can be conveyed on the canvas through his gestural technique.

Michelangelo Furino is a Sardinian painter, with an expressionist leaning. His pictorial production is distinguished by genre scenes inspired by a world of farmers and fishermen whose system of primary and archaic values ​​is expressed by the gestural strength of the pictorial layering.

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