Oliviero Maffei - Easter Monday

The urban landscape was already a popular subject in the Middle Ages and the Modern Era, 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. This painting by Oliviero Maffei, however, highlights an existentialist dimension discernible in the solitary image of the subject, almost lost in a peripheral setting.

In this painting, Oliviero Maffei creates a sort of expressionist landscape, employing the formal form best suited to expressing his existentialist conception of the urban view. Phenomenal reality thus undergoes a significant process of synthesis, finding itself reduced to a two-dimensional surface. The subjects are reduced to the essential through a few diluted brushstrokes, and the buildings blend into the space, blended by a coherent and compact gray tone that leaves almost no room for reflection. Yet the light still manages to perform its function, reverberating in diaphanous flashes that recede into the depths, measuring the space of this urban view.

The artist Oliviero Maffei, as we can see from an analysis of this work, is essentially an expressionist artist. His work is characterized by urban views with an existential tone that tend to emphasize the solitude of man in a peripheral dimension.

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