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WITHOUT LINES OR GEOMETRIC POINTS – Painting with splashes of color: the Italian Macchiaioli, between the nineteenth and twentieth century

beppe.domeniciA pictorial movement which experienced a short creative horizon, between eight hundred and nine hundred. That renewal was anti-academic, and it was a form of expression of Italian painting in the realist sense. The creativity of the Macchiaioli is realistic, and is firmly opposed to Romanticism and academic Purism. The Macchiaioli, believe that the image of the real is a contrast of color spots and light and dark.francesco.fanelli.2

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francesco.fanelliFor them, those contrasts are technically feasible, using a mirror blackened with the smoke: the result is to bring out the contrasts within the paintings. Among the painters who gathered at the Caffè Michelangelo in Florence, a few names stand out: Signorini, Abbati, Cecioni and Fattori, Lega, Costa and Cannicci. Although originally coined in a negative way, the name of that artistic movement had become a symbol of all the Italian realist painters, creative expressing the colors their landscapes in the open field, using splashes of color. You can find further thematic deepening on Meeting Benches, looking for:giovanni.fattori

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