Michele Cisternino - Game

The "Still Life" genre emerged in the early 17th century. It consisted of compositions of inanimate subjects, most often flowers or fruit. While initially it was an opportunity for painters to experiment with naturalistic or photographic reproductions of reality, with contemporary art, the "Still Life" also became a way of interpreting reality. Indeed, as happened, for example, in the Cubist avant-garde or in Giorgio Morandi, the in-depth exploration of objects was aimed at a conceptual representation, taken beyond the mere sensory element. The artist Michele Cisternino achieved great fame precisely thanks to the "Still Life" genre. His compositions also feature themes related to the world of hunting, as in the present work.

The style of artist Michele Cisternino, in his still lifes, displays a tendency that could be described as hyperrealist in contemporary art. Indeed, one can see a desire to objectively and lucidly convey onto the canvas the tangible data before his eyes. Michele Cisternino possesses a remarkable technique, rigorously classical and academic in its approach, even reminiscent of Flemish painting in the precision with which he reproduces various materials and surfaces and the effects of light falling on them. Despite its objective clarity and while avoiding overly accentuated atmospheric effects, Michele Cisternino's technique is such that it naturally inserts objects into space, with a continuity and indefiniteness of contours. Indeed, the subject is illuminated in a suggestive and theatrical manner, emerging from the dark background of the wall. It is noteworthy that the great attention to compositional balance is always attributable to a classical taste.

Michele Cisternino is a contemporary painter from Puglia. Born in Margherita di Savoia in 1931, he specializes in still lifes.

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