Antonio Lucarda - Views of 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 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 series of drawings, Antonio Lucarda draws decisively from the Venetian vedutista tradition of Canaletto, Bellotto, and Francesco Guardi, but offers an extremely concise interpretation. The subject is reduced to a few cursive, rapid-fire graphic signs that convey the true essence of the representation on the sheet. There is a confident and immediate character in the transposition of the view. Lucarda's technical prowess lies precisely in this extreme synthesis, achieved with great graphic elegance.

Antonio Lucarda was a Venetian artist born in 1904 and died in 1993. He focused primarily on views of his city, continuing the great vedutista tradition that began in the 18th century. He primarily produced works in pencil, pen, or watercolor on paper, with a concise and elegant graphic style.

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