Aldo Turchiaro - Dolphin

Animal portraits in art have ancient origins, appearing even 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.

Aldo Turchiaro has a special talent for depicting animals, which he interprets with his own personal style. Turchiaro's subjects straddle the line between a naturalistic depiction, which leans toward detailed depiction, and a more creative reworking of the subject that seeks a sort of mechanomorphic transformation of the animals. In this case, the dolphin, framed with a bold photographic angle that enlarges its snout, has a surface composed of what appear to be metallic scales. This process of devitalization of the subject benefits the more expressive composition, which also relies on the almost monochromatic color scheme of intense blue.

Aldo Turchiaro was born in Celico in 1929. He moved to Rome, where he studied under Renato Guttuso. Initially, he also looked to Carrà and De Chirico, but later embraced Expressionist Realism. He participated in the Venice Biennale and the Rome Quadrennial, and in 1973 he won the Fiorino Prize in Florence. He is also known as an illustrator, having illustrated books of poetry by Rocco Scotellaro and Márcia Theóphilo.

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