Giacomo De Michelis - Apples

The “Still Life” genre emerged at the beginning of the 17th century. It consists of the representation of compositions of inanimate subjects, in most cases flowers or fruit. If at the beginning of its history it was an opportunity for painters to try their hand at a naturalistic or photographic reproduction of reality, with contemporary art “Still Life” also becomes a way of interpreting reality. Indeed, as will happen for example in the cubist avant-garde or in Giorgio Morandi, the profound research on objects will be aimed at a conceptual representation, taken beyond the simple sensory data.

Also in this work, inspired by the “Still Life” genre, we can appreciate the remarkable pictorial quality of the artist Giacomo De Michelis. His language is based largely on the expressive qualities of color. The artist almost entirely eliminates drawing to build the subject through a dense chromatic impasto with dynamic nuances. Thus we can appreciate how the entire space of the work is set on a coherent chromatic range of greens, reds, and pinks in the blue space, in which the tones have a value, more than realistic, spiritual and guarantee unity to the entire composition. From the point of view of form, the application is very fast and expressionistic in the strength of the thick and synthetic stroke.

The artist Giacomo De Michelis, born in 1935, had a very adventurous life. During his career he studied under Fusco, Moretti, Omiccioli and had the opportunity to meet Dalì, Picasso and other masters. He was also an amateur actor during the 1970s, appearing in films such as “Lo scopone scientifico” by Luigi Comencini and “Gli altri racconti di Canterbury” by Mino Guerrini.

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