Pietro Pantino - Composition

The depiction of animals in art has ancient origins, even appearing in primitive cave paintings. For religious reasons, various types of animals appear in the works of various ancient civilizations. It was especially in the Middle Ages, within the International Gothic style, that animal depictions became widespread as true portraits from life, both within works of art and in notebooks of drawings and sketches. The presence of animals as subjects in art remained constant until the contemporary era. In this painting, the artist Mario Puopolo focuses his research on the figure of the horse. A noble animal, a symbol of beauty and harmony, the horse has repeatedly been a prominent subject in the history of art. Since the fourteenth century, its presence has always been obligatory in battle scenes or equestrian monuments, and for painters, it has always been a challenge to represent it with anatomical precision and naturalistic rendering.

In Pietro Pantino's works dedicated to the figure of the horse, the composition is distinguished by a perfect balance between the naturalistic rendering of the subjects and a celebration of the animal's inherent dynamism. This dynamism is accentuated right from the composition, which features diagonal cuts or directional lines appropriate for depicting the horses' running. The subjects' bodies are beautifully delineated. Yet the artist's execution, as always, is very rapid and complex, full of vibrations that enhance the speed and dynamism in a decidedly expressive manner.

Pietro Pantino is a painter originally from Palermo, where he was born in 1941. He creates almost exclusively genre scenes inspired by the fin-de-siècle bourgeois world or rural life. His pictorial language is also aligned with his favorite subjects, drawing inspiration from a post-impressionist style in the construction of the image.

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