Silvio Polloni - Still Life

The son of a craftsman decorator, he was sent at a young age to work as an apprentice to a gilder, a family friend. Meanwhile, he attended the Art Institute until his high school studies and the Scuola Libera del Nudo at the Academy of Fine Arts. Mobilized in 1915 for the First World War, upon his return to the city, he devoted himself to music and singing for a few years, before finally focusing on painting in 1924. As Armando Nocentini wrote, "Polloni knew how to sing and extol the beauty of his homeland, the enchantment of a fertile countryside, of the Arno River that flows through it, and of the simple life that unfolds there..." Starting with a style of painting close to the tradition of the Tuscan Macchiaioli, he integrated it with influences derived from Impressionism. His compositions later took on a distinctive originality, made up of vivid yet measured colors, precise lines, and large surfaces. Recurring subjects in his figurative work include landscapes, figures, and still lifes. His later works focused on views of the Arno, depicted with lyrical expressiveness and intense emotional involvement.

He was also active as a ceramist and poet, and a member of the "Antica Compagnia del Paiolo," which brought together the leading representatives of Florentine art. He was also an Associate Academic Painter and Corresponding Academic Painter of the Academy of the Arts of Drawing.

His works appear in numerous public and private art collections, including the Galleria d'Arte Moderna of Palazzo Pitti and the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea in Rome, the Ambron Collection, the Museo di Firenze com'era, the collection of the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence, and the Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea in Latina.

Known as the "Painter of the Arno" because during his career he often approached the banks of the river to paint its landscape. The work depicted here stands out as one of the very rare cases in which the painter did not depict the river.

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