Rina Ravenna - Still Life

Flowers as a subject in themselves began to appear in still lifes, a genre that emerged in the early 17th century. Subsequently, painters, especially the Impressionists, increasingly focused on the floral world as an extraordinary opportunity to capture vibrant colors and light. Thus, flowers began to appear not only in vases, but also immersed in their natural landscape. While initially a pretext for painters to attempt a photographic reproduction of reality, with contemporary art, the subject of flowers also becomes a way of interpreting reality.

Rina Ravenna's pictorial language relies primarily on the expressive qualities of color. The drawing structure and perspective grid are completely dismantled to make way for the force of the brushstrokes. Indeed, the vigor with which Rina Ravenna creates her works is such that it verges on the gesturality typical of Abstract Expressionism. However, the artist holds firmly to phenomenal reality because even with her colorful, highly textured brushstrokes, she manages to delineate the essence of the flower vase, imbuing it with expressive vigor. Especially in her floral-themed works, however, we note an accentuation of color synthesis. The rendering of the object is even more abstract, determined by large, contrasting brushstrokes. In this Expressionist context, color takes on Fauvist tones, generating the violent contrasts sought by the painter. The meaning of color, in fact, goes far beyond naturalism and takes on a highly symbolic, evocative, and spiritual significance.

Both in her choice of subjects and her execution method, we can say that artist Rina Ravenna moves within the realm of classical, figurative production, while also displaying a certain expressionist attitude in composing her works.

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