Domenico Barresi - Untitled

The painting can be defined as a genre scene, that is, the depiction of an episode of everyday life that, apparently, lacks any significant element. These types of domestic subjects were long considered minor and only began to spread in Western art starting in the 17th century. Only with the development of 19th-century realism did everyday subjects become considered as important as historical or religious ones.

In this painting, the painter Domenico Barresi focuses primarily on an almost complete decontextualization of the scene. Everything is anonymous and generic: the depersonalized faces of the women in the foreground are matched by the characters moving in the background, reproduced in a serial and schematic fashion. All this conveys a certain sense of alienation and enigma, which would bring this work closer to poetics such as symbolism or metaphysics. Formally, we have a rapid, impressionistic interpretation, synthesizing forms with a few brush strokes.

Domenico Barresi is a painter whose formal style, with its cursive brushstrokes and small touches of color, is influenced by Impressionism. Poetically, his compositions transcend reality, so much so that they can be associated with a Symbolist aesthetic.

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