Michele Cascella - Lithographs (Paris series)

The urban landscape was already a popular subject in the Middle Ages and Early Modern periods, 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. In Michele Cascella's artistic production, in addition to polychrome landscapes featuring flowers, another highly developed subject is that of the city, Paris in particular. In this context, too, the artist draws on the Impressionist tradition of the veduta, which celebrates the vibrancy of bourgeois life.

This series of lithographs also highlights the extraordinary technical prowess of Michele Cascella's painting. In these works, the entire structure is determined by an extremely complex graphic style that depicts the buildings, the surrounding landscape, and the characters moving within them with great freshness and immediacy of execution. This graphic style creates, within the composition, a system of lines that can follow a diagonal or sinuous path: these lines are useful for identifying the interactions of objects in space and their existential vibrations. This type of composition, therefore, is designed to enhance the movement of city life with a lively technique.

Michele Cascella (Ortona 1892 – Milan 1989). A painter with a remarkable career, his works are exhibited in important museums both in Italy and abroad. He experimented with numerous techniques, but his greatest achievements were with his floral subjects. Cascella's style of painting is both investigation and a precious lyricism of color. He remains faithful to a naturalistic approach, but his technique is designed to capture the vibrant chromatic and luminous effects of the floral world or the liveliness of urban scenes.

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