Mario De Poli - Lights and Houses in Bale d'Istria

The urban landscape was already a popular subject in the Middle Ages and the Modern Age, 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 village view by Mario De Poli, the everyday aspect prevails, the frank and sincere realism of everyday life in a city setting. Human presence is ignored, and the artist lets the buildings speak for themselves, protagonists of a direct narrative, unfiltered by idealization.

Mario De Poli's artistic journey is equally dominated by instinct and compositional rigor. In his recurring subjects, linked to the countryside or glimpses of Venetian and Istrian villages, he fundamentally begins with a post-Impressionist pictorial style, in which brushstrokes construct forms and volumes through a complex intersection of planes. Each brushstroke is placed on a different plane, creating concrete, solid volumes. In this exploration of volume and balanced composition, Mario De Poli seems to draw on the teachings of Ottone Rosai and Dino Migliorini. However, compared to the Tuscan masters, who favor clear and compact forms, Mario De Poli favors a more elaborate pictorial style aimed at capturing all the vibrations of objects, which are not only luminous and atmospheric, but also existential.

Mario De Poli was a painter from Tezze sul Brenta, born in 1928 and died in 2002. He was mainly a landscape painter in his career,
His career, which lasted over fifty years, captured beautiful views of the Veneto and Istria. His paintings have been featured in numerous exhibitions, shows, and publications. Many of his works have been included in the Bollaffi Catalogue of Art.

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