Antonio De Vity - 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 only starting in the 19th century. This type of subject coherently reflects the inclinations of the painter Antonio De Vity, whose artistic career is closely linked to Impressionism. Indeed, urban landscapes and scenes of city life are typical themes of that pictorial movement. It is worth remembering that immediately following the realist movements of the 19th century, the Impressionists placed great emphasis on the everyday, on everyday life, with a certain predilection, however, for the modern aspects represented by the urban landscape: the frenzy of the city, the crowds, the traffic, and the typically bourgeois settings. Throughout his career, the artist Antonio De Vity has drawn on this aesthetic, even in the type of stylistic register he adopted, although here he opts for a traditionally vedutist subject, such as the Venetian view.

The painting is a typical example of Antonio De Vity's oeuvre and was created with a remarkable Impressionist technique. The artist uses rapid, hatched brushstrokes to quickly delineate shapes and volumes. This allows him to capture, with every single brushstroke, the effects of light and atmosphere on objects, and to instantly convey a view with precise meteorological and environmental conditions onto the canvas. The entire color palette, from the lagoon to the sky, is designed to reflect the precise atmospheric conditions being depicted. As with the Impressionists, the perspective grid is not eliminated; spatial depth is determined exclusively through the gradations of color. Delving into a more specifically formal analysis, we can appreciate the contemporary reworking of the Impressionist tradition, corroborated by the artist's touch, which creates the subjects as flickering visions, reverberated by the reflections on the water's surface.

Antonio De Vity is the pseudonym of Umberto Marone, born in Naples in 1901 and died in 1993. He began studying painting in his hometown, but his stay in Paris, where he attended the Ecole des Beaux Arts, was crucial to his development. Upon returning to Italy, he founded his own school, which became an important reference point for artists from the South.

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