Mario Masetti - Horse's Head

The depiction of animals in art has ancient origins, even appearing in primitive cave paintings. For religious reasons, various types of animals appear in the works of various ancient civilizations. It was especially in the Middle Ages, within the International Gothic style, that animal depictions became widespread as true portraits from life, both within works of art and in notebooks of drawings and sketches. The presence of animals as subjects in art remained constant until the contemporary era. In this painting, artist Mario Masetti focuses his research on the figure of the horse. A noble animal, a symbol of beauty and harmony, the horse has repeatedly been a prominent subject in the history of art. Since the fourteenth century, its presence has always been obligatory in battle scenes or equestrian monuments, and for painters, depicting it with anatomical precision and naturalistic rendering has always been a challenge.

In his works, it's clear that for Mario Masetti, representing reality means achieving, through painting, a delicate fusion between naturalistic rendering and expressionistic force. Indeed, the artist uses a purely figurative language and remains rooted in sensory data. Yet reality seems to be transfigured into a vivid interpretation that shifts it into an expressionist dimension. Formally, this translates into a highly synthetic pictorial style, where the representation of reality occurs essentially through the application of paint. This means that the capture of realistic details and particulars is lost in favor of a more dramatic language. Masetti's refined pictorial touch, which synthesizes objects with great vigor, plays a key role in this process.

Mario Masetti is an artist who has dedicated himself primarily to classical and traditional genres such as landscapes, genre scenes, and animal representations, enlivening them with a more expressionist nature, based on a vigorous pictorial synthesis.

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