Stroppa Leonardo - Still Life

Still life has continued to be a significant genre in contemporary art, evolving and reinventing itself through new perspectives and artistic expressions, becoming both a subject and a means of exploring conceptual and symbolic concepts. The Turin-born painter interprets still life, narrating it through colors and impressions, with a simplistic view of reality. This representation, in which very delicate relationships between signs and colors emerge, explores a reality that looks to the everyday, evidently influenced by a group of artists, the Turin-based Gruppo dei Sei. This artistic collective, formed in 1928 under the influence of Edoardo Persico, included artists such as Enrico Paulucci, Nicola Galante, Gigi Chessa, Francesco Menzio, Carlo Levi, and Jessie Boswell. The Group was distinguished by several characteristics such as: the rebellion against Futurism, although there was a connection on a pictorial-intellectual level, the influence on an international level especially thinking about the Parisian context looking at Modigliani, Manet, Dufy and the interest in social representation.

A volumetric representation of the cloth holding the fruit highlights the painter's skill in rendering folds and geometric constructions. The work we observe demonstrates a delicate line and a simplified composition. A brushstroke that relies on the expressive and authentic colors of the representation, framing the subject within its everyday context. The luminous element emerges calmly and purely.

Leonardo Stroppa (1900 – 1991) was a figurative painter from Turin who frequented the avant-garde circles of the Accademia Albertina and the Turin Group of Six. A painter with a distinctly European taste, he interacted with the leading exponents of Parisian painting of the time. One of his works is exhibited at the Galleria d'Arte Moderna in Turin, and many others were shown in Antwerp, Paris, and Zurich. In his artistic production, the painter's preferred medium was watercolor.

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