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The "Still Life" genre emerged in the early 17th century. It consists of compositions of inanimate subjects, most often flowers or fruit. While initially it was an opportunity for painters to attempt a photographic reproduction of reality, with contemporary art the "Still Life" also becomes a way of interpreting reality, as it did for the Cubists or Giorgio Morandi.

The Marche-born painter Attilio Alfieri achieved a thoroughly post-Impressionist style of great aesthetic and emotional impact. First and foremost, he achieves a remarkable synthesis of his subjects, but this synthesis occurs through color. Consequently, brushstrokes are crucial: broad, full-bodied brushstrokes acquire a profound structural value in delineating the volumes of objects; color transfers chromatic vibrations to the canvas, fleshing out living objects. Alfieri's painting, with its bright and vibrant hues, is charged with existential lyricism.

Attilio Alfieri was born in Loreto in 1904. He began working as a fresco painter and decorator and in 1923 moved to Milan, where he passed away in 1992. In Milan, Alfieri completed his training by attending evening classes at the Brera Academy and the Sforza Castle. His close association with Birolli, the Chiaristi, and the Corrente group was crucial. His first solo exhibition was held in 1934 at the Circolo Filologico in Milan. He participated in various editions of the Rome Quadriennale, the Venice Biennale, and the Bergamo Prize. In 1939, he became a professor of Fresco and Decoration at the Scuola Unitaria in Milan.

The work appears in Attilio Alfieri's Catalogue Raisonné, edited by Luigi Sansone, published by Mazzotta.

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