Stramondo - Old Man and Child

Name: Stramondo - Old Man and Child
Brand: Malacarne Armando 24000
SKU: AMAL008
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Stramondo - Old Man and Child

SKU:AMAL008

Stramondo

Oil, 100X80, year 1971

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Formato: Medium (40-100cm)

Orientamento: Horizontal

Supporto: Canvas

Soggetto: Sacred art

Stile: Figurative

Description of the work

Despite the clear predominance of sacred subjects, the artist Stramondo's pictorial production also includes a certain number of genre scenes, that is, the representation of an episode of daily life that apparently has no significant elements. This type of domestic subject matter was long considered minor and only began to spread in Western art from the seventeenth century onwards. It was only with the development of nineteenth-century realist movements that everyday subjects were considered to be of the same importance as historical or religious ones. In this case, the artist Stramondo creates a composition in which intimate, domestic, and family values are exalted. All of Father Raffaele Stramondo's artistic production is part of an illustrious pictorial tradition. His style is fully part of the great family of Italian classicism, which leads him to adopt Naturalism as his reference language. Stramondo's pictorial approach looks to the masters of the High Renaissance and to the evolution of painting that involved the entire seventeenth century, before flowing into the various classicist movements of the contemporary era. Stramondo makes this most noble subject matter his own and synthesizes it into a new, original form that is uniquely his. The peculiarities of Stramondo's classicism are, naturally, to be found in the complete naturalistic rendering of perceptible reality, which he is capable of thanks to his excellent pictorial technique. A naturalistic rendering that is evident not only in the physiognomic and psychological truth of his characters, but also in their completely natural immersion in the space of the works. Indeed, the atmospheric fusion of the subjects in space is another prerogative of the classical and naturalistic tradition that we find optimally in Stramondo's production. In this case too, everything is resolved with great technical skill, because such a fusion between subjects and space is possible thanks to the extraordinary tonal coherence of the paintings. The entire surface of Stramondo's works is perfectly unified by the predominance of generally brown hues. In this unity, the artist knows how to wonderfully modulate light and shadow, measuring the space and giving life to stunning landscape backgrounds. Another peculiarity of Stramondo is his perfect balance between idealization and realism: the monumentality and magniloquence of his characters look back to the glorious past of the Renaissance and the Baroque, but the artist from Belpasso tends to exalt the humanity of the subjects, with a deeply realistic touch that shows the will to adhere to more contemporary aesthetic demands. Don Raffaele Stramondo, born Mauro Stramondo, was born in Belpasso in 1919 and passed away in Catania in 1997. Having shown innate artistic gifts from childhood, he trained at the Badia di Cava, encouraged by Abbot Ildenfonso Rea, who had noticed his talent. There he also matured his religious vocation, which would lead him to take his vows in 1932 at the age of only twelve, entering the Benedictine Order. He was still a novice when he painted the vault of the chapter house, and in 1941 he created the portrait for the abbot's tenth anniversary. In 1945 he was ordained a priest. Father Raffaele Stramondo's vast pictorial production consists mainly of oil paintings on canvas. Many works are held in public and private collections both in Italy and abroad.

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