Rolando Castellani - Untitled

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.

Rolando Castellani's pictorial language relies primarily on the expressive qualities of color. The drawing structure and perspective grid are completely dismantled to make room for the force of the brushstrokes. In this work, however, we note an accentuation of the color synthesis. The rendering of the object is even more abstract, determined by broad brushstrokes representing the flower petals, while the stems are depicted with calligraphic arabesques. In this expressionistic context, as is typical of Castellani, color also takes on strong, Fauvist hues, 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.

Rolando Castellani is an artist from Ellera Umbra. His work, though figurative in nature, is essentially expressionist. He has held several exhibitions both in Italy and abroad (New York, Sydney, Perth, Tehran, Lausanne, Zurich, London, and Stockholm). He is a member of the G. Marconi Academy in Rome and the Free World International Academy in the United States. He has received the Presidential Gold Medal.

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