Antonio Asturi - Paris

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 how, immediately following the realist movements of the 19th century, the Impressionists also placed great emphasis on the everyday, on everyday life, with a certain predilection, however, for the frenetic pace of the city, its crowds, traffic, and typically bourgeois settings.

In this painting, painter Antonio Asturi demonstrates a pictorial conception inspired by post-impressionism. In a composition entirely based on the tonal and expressive values ​​of color, the paint is distributed in dense touches of paint that synthesize the subjects through a cursive and immediate technique. The resulting representation is fluid and iridescent in its bright, luminous colors.

Antonio Asturi was a painter originally from Vico Equense, where he was born in 1904 and passed away in 1986. Self-taught, after a brief Futurist interlude he returned to figurative painting, focusing primarily on cityscapes and scenes of bourgeois life. He was deeply fascinated by the paintings of Antonio Mancini. In addition to oil, he also used tempera and Indian ink extensively.

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