Filippo Palizzi (Italian, 1818 - 1899)
Country scene with shepherd boy and goats

Country scene with shepherd boy and goats

Technique:

Oil painting on canvas

Dimensions:

50x62 cm, framed 82x93.5 cm

Signed lower right. "With Filippo Palizzi we have the first beginning of pictorial realism. After the school of Posillipo, the observation of truth becomes the subject of pictorial speculation. Since the 1950s he has been interested in photography which he practices with in-depth technical knowledge. He used the photos that he he developed himself, as observation and models for his paintings. In this way he matured an immediate and direct naturalism, referring to the Flemish animalist school of the seventeenth century, but he pays much more attention to details, combining neoclassical dignity with the genre painting of costumes His visits to Europe and Paris (1955) allowed him to perfect his luministic investigation. On his return he stayed in Florence. Here he met Giovanni Fattori and the Macchiaioli. totality, with these concepts Palizzi defines his poetics which is based on his personal conception of the "stain" meaning that the "totality" it had to be the expression of the whole, of the whole of the stain which had to be completed by the subtleties, or rather by the rendering of perceptive subtleties. The chiaroscuro landscapes had to undergo meticulous attention, of a micrographic nature, to the effects of light and had to be created with the tip of a brush to finally express the entirety of the work. The painting in question is a typical example of this pictorial conception. Final product of what he himself called a cosmic naturalism. "STUDIO ASOR