Salvatore Miglietta - The Horses

The depiction of animals in art has ancient origins, even appearing in primitive cave paintings. For religious reasons, various types of animals appear in the works of various ancient civilizations. It was especially in the Middle Ages, within the International Gothic style, that animal depictions became widespread as true life portraits, both within works of art and in notebooks of drawings and sketches. The presence of animals as subjects in art remained constant until the contemporary era. The horse is one of Salvatore Miglietta's favorite subjects. A noble animal, a symbol of beauty and harmony, the horse has repeatedly been a prominent subject in the history of art. Since the fourteenth century, its presence has always been obligatory in battle scenes or equestrian monuments, and for painters, depicting it with anatomical precision and naturalistic rendering has always been a challenge.

This work is exemplary of the Expressionist phase of artist Salvatore Miglietta, who, like the German Franz Marc, developed the subject of the horse to create an artistic language that transcends the naturalistic to express intense spirituality and emotion. Thus, these four horse figures are constructed by Miglietta with a bold black line, sketching out the forms and volumes in an almost crude manner, leveraging the expressive power of a vigorous stroke. The application of color also follows the same lines and, consistent with an Expressionist artistic approach, is characterized by broad, structural brushstrokes, dense with texture, which enhance the artist's intense gestures. It is, in fact, through his pictorial gesture that Miglietta transcends sensory data to create a representation that exalts a vision charged with broader meanings. Thus, too, the color does not respect natural truth, leaning toward hues that have a completely symbolic and spiritual significance.

Salvatore Miglietta is a decidedly eclectic painter, whose work is divided between a highly classical and traditional approach to artistic creation and a more experimental and abstract approach. His works, therefore, range from realistic scenes full of detail, enlivened by fine, impressionistic-inspired hatching, to synthetic and expressionist representations where the artist's gestures prevail.

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