Roberto Carignani - The Street Kid

Portraiture is one of the most widespread artistic expressions, especially in painting, but also in sculpture, throughout the ages. Portraiture is, first and foremost, a description of the subject depicted, an attempt to capture their physiognomy and individual characteristics truthfully and naturally. With the progressive evolution of artistic research, the physiognomic description of the subject has also been accompanied by a psychological one. Therefore, over the centuries, portraiture has also become a means of introspective investigation of the subject, their character, and their state of mind. The processes of abstraction brought about by contemporary art have contributed to this type of investigation.

The execution of the subject is typical of the style of painter Roberto Carignani. Carignani is an artist who loves to use pictorial impastos with an antique feel in a lively, realistic and evocative interpretation. The pictorial layering, however, is entirely contemporary, resulting in a complex and lived-in feel, dense with pictorial substance. Indeed, Roberto Carignani has based much of his artistic production on this very dialogue between tradition and contemporaneity. In this specific work, the artist reworks the portrait genre, breaking down the academic style into a new language rich in chromatic vibrations.

Roberto Carignani was a Neapolitan painter born in 1894 and died in 1975. Influenced by Spanish painting (El Greco, Velázquez, Goya), his training took place under the guidance of Vincenzo Irolli. He specialized in painting lively sensual scenes or dark nocturnes, especially those depicting the island of Capri.

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