Michele Cascella - Marina in Portofino

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 16th century; and finally with the depiction of every single vibration of light on objects in Impressionism. In Michele Cascella's works, the subject is always a landscape where flowers and their colors are the protagonists. This type of floral view allows the Abruzzo master to unleash his full chromatic flair in a composition in which an Impressionist stylistic register is taken to its extreme.

In this graphic work, too, we can see the extraordinary technical prowess of Michele Cascella's art. The entire structure of this work is determined by an extremely complex application of brushstrokes that depict the seaside scene, the surrounding landscape, and the boats sailing by, with great freshness and immediacy of execution. This application creates a complex hatching within the composition, useful for identifying the interactions of objects in space and their existential vibrations. This type of composition, therefore, enhances the hues of city life with a lively technique. As in all of Cascella's work, there is no shortage of color, in this case expressed by the vibrant polychromy suggested by the beach umbrellas.

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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