Anonymous Artist - Porticciolo

The painting, both in subject matter and execution technique, is a perfect example of genre painting from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The themes it depicts—scenes of everyday life among the lower classes of society—were widespread in European painting of the period. The focus on the lower social classes, with scenes from peasant or seafaring life, coincides with the development of the social question at the time, namely, the issues facing the poorest and most deprived segments of the population.

The artist demonstrates a strong post-Impressionist technique. Indeed, his hand is characterized by the use of rapid yet broad brushstrokes, which delineate figures and objects in a very summary, almost synthetic manner. This indicates a desire to go beyond Impressionism, adopting a pictorial approach suited not only to the rendering of the vibrations of the muted light that pervades the scene, or the refractions of the water and the overall humid atmosphere that saturates the air, but also conveying expressive values ​​related to the immediacy and simplicity of the daily existence of the lower classes.

The artist who painted this work appears to belong to a specific context that combined an interest in scenes of everyday life with a post-Impressionist painting technique. Much of Italian painting between the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries had this type of connotation, such as the Divisionist and Symbolist movements of the late nineteenth century, or the Macchiaioli group. These are all painting movements that placed great emphasis on social issues in their works, interpreting genre scenes with a style that already had expressionist overtones.

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