Antonio Bueno - Vase of violets

Flowers as a subject in themselves began to appear in still lifes, a genre that emerged in the early 17th century. Subsequently, painters, especially the Impressionists, increasingly focused on the floral world as an extraordinary opportunity to capture vibrant colors and light. Thus, flowers began to appear not only in vases, but also immersed in their natural landscape. While initially a pretext for painters to attempt a photographic reproduction of reality, with contemporary art, the subject of flowers also becomes a way of interpreting reality.

This lithograph exemplifies the recurring style of the painter Antonio Bueno and his elaboration of the human figure and objects. The construction of the figure through rounded forms, with accentuated symmetry, as if generated by a rotation around a pivot, is consistent. The facial features of the people or the details of the objects are generic but characterized by a type of synthesis dictated by a conscious childishness that gives a naïve touch to this painter's work. Everything is always depicted with a lucid objectivity in which the rationality of the volumes is clearly enhanced, without any pictorial effect.

Antonio Bueno was a Spanish-born painter born in Germany in 1918. He moved to Italy with his brother Xavier, another artist, in 1940, where he achieved great critical and public success, exhibiting at the Venice Biennale in 1984. He died in Fiesole that same year. His artistic language was characterized by various phases, from Impressionism to Verism, and finally to abstract experimentation. However, his work is best remembered for its rounded, plastic figures with childlike features.

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