{"product_id":"riccardo-tosti-senza-titolo-3","title":"Riccardo Tosti - Untitled","description":"\u003cp\u003e Since the 19th century, when painting began to explore various aspects of everyday life, the circus world has been a theme explored by various artists. With the development of Symbolist and Expressionist movements between the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the figure of the acrobat, circus performer, or mask began to gain popularity, as it played a key role in the development of complex iconographies with hidden and mysterious meanings. Examples include the figures of artists and harlequins immortalized by Picasso during his \"blue\" and \"rose\" periods. During the 1970s and 1980s, it became a true genre, practiced by many painters, who focused their interest primarily on the figure of the clown.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n \u003cp\u003eRiccardo Tosti's works fall within the realm of genre painting not only because of their subjects—popular scenes and characters—but also because of the painter's objective and highly didactic language. The work is always figurative in its clear framing, where Riccardo Tosti demonstrates his skill in achieving a perfect realistic rendering in a representation rich in detail and anecdotal details. All this is achieved without idealizing filters, but through a spontaneous representation that conveys reality as it is. Beyond this profound sense of truth, there is another absolutely significant characteristic of Riccardo Tosti's artistic practice, which has led him to be called the \"painter of the sun.\" We are talking about the extraordinary use of light that Tosti deploys in each of his works, here aimed at describing the spotlight illuminating the subject. For this reason, from a formal standpoint, Riccardo Tosti doesn't shy away from using a cursive style, composed of rapid strokes, to ensure greater vivacity and freshness in his execution. Thus, the brushstrokes display a certain level of synthesis, without ever compromising the clarity of the anecdotal and realistic narrative, but just enough to infuse the scene with a delicate lyricism enhanced by the light.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n \u003cp\u003eRiccardo Tosti was born in Trieste in 1910 and passed away in 1986. An essentially realist painter, his work was primarily devoted to illustrating life in his hometown in bourgeois and popular scenes. Famous above all for his use of light in his paintings, he was nicknamed \"the painter of the sun.\" Throughout his career, he held over 100 solo exhibitions in Italy and abroad. He exhibited in Oslo, Brussels, Munich, Lugano, Monte Carlo, and New York, always achieving great public and critical acclaim.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fioni Maria (2300)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56218621182338,"sku":"MFIO001","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0909\/7065\/3058\/files\/IMG-20230415-WA0001.jpg?v=1768474883","url":"https:\/\/cjfh11-ee.myshopify.com\/en\/products\/riccardo-tosti-senza-titolo-3","provider":"Venderequadri","version":"1.0","type":"link"}