Umberto Bianchini - Venice

The urban landscape was already a popular subject in the Middle Ages and the Modern Era, but predominantly in an idealized manner. Scenes of city life became typical themes with a more realistic interpretation starting in the 19th century. It's worth remembering that immediately following the realist movements of the 19th century, the Impressionists also placed great emphasis on everyday life, with a certain predilection, however, for the frenetic pace of the city, its crowds, traffic, and typically bourgeois settings. This work is extremely interesting, as landscape is a rather rare subject in Umberto Bianchini's oeuvre, which is centered on his Expressionist portraits.

Even in landscape painting, though tied to the reproduction of sensory data, Umberto Bianchini does not deny his expressionist nature. Thus, even in a view like this, he seeks to exploit the formal peculiarities of his style to imbue the landscape with a profound lyrical and existential meaning. First and foremost, the composition is constructed entirely through color: to transcend contingent data and transfigure reality into the symbolic system of his painting, Bianchini must undermine the drawing grid. In this way, he can exploit all the expressive qualities in the application of color. Indeed, his brushstrokes are dense and crafted to create a continuum between objects and space, in a perfect atmospheric fusion. An atmosphere that we can certainly define as dense with existential vibrations that give this view a truly poetic connotation.

Umberto Bianchini was born in Florence in 1934 and passed away in 2010. After high school, he began working as a graphic designer and entered the art world by studying painting, with a particular interest in post-Impressionism and Tuscan portrait painters. He participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions and events, garnering critical and public acclaim and winning several awards. He also participated, by invitation, in numerous group exhibitions and international exhibitions. His works are held in private and important public collections. Two of his works were purchased by the Presidency of the Council of Ministers and the Ministry of Tourism and Entertainment. One of his paintings is exhibited at the National Museum in Krakow.

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