Rodolfo Marma - Monte Morello, Florentine morning

Landscape has always been a central theme in artistic research, both as a setting, as a backdrop, and as a subject itself. The naturalistic depiction of landscape has been an artist's aspiration throughout the centuries. Each historical period has offered its own interpretation of landscape, contributing to the evolution of its depiction: first with an exploration of space, through Brunelleschi's perspective in the early Renaissance; then with atmospheric rendering in the sixteenth century; and finally with the depiction of every single vibration of light on objects in Impressionism.

This Florentine view by Rodolfo Marma, unlike his smaller genre scenes, highlights the artist's post-Impressionist maturity. The composition is resolved entirely through the application of color. The painter's aim is not to capture the sensory aspect of the landscape, but to capture its very essence, its substance. To this end, the richly textured brushstrokes intervene, which, despite the essentiality of the representation, flesh out the objects, breaking them down into different planes, recording the vibrations of light and life within them. The sensory aspect, therefore, is completely transcended in a complex conception of pictorial practice in which the artist's gestures themselves play a fundamental role. From the perspective of the palette, a certain luminosity and polychrome vivacity typical of Marma persists.

Rodolfo Marmaioli "Marma" (Florence 1923 – 1998) was an Italian painter and illustrator. He attended the Academy of Fine Arts in his hometown, under the guidance of Ugo Capocchini, graduating in 1948. At the same time, he frequented the studio of Emanuele Cavalli. From 1956 to 1958, he lived and worked in New York, where, in 1965, "Marma's Day" was dedicated to him. Between 1967 and 1972, he concentrated on exhibiting in Florence. Marma was also a reader and book illustrator. His works are held in public and private collections in Europe and the United States, including the White House in Washington and the San Antonio Museum in Texas. In Florence, his paintings are exhibited at the Galleria d'Arte Moderna in Palazzo Pitti and at the Museo del Complesso delle Oblate.

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