The Soap Bubble
1927
5.0 x 40.0 cm
Cagnaccio di San Pietro (1897 – 1946)
Natale Bentivoglio Scarpa (Cagnaccio di San Pietro): Italienischer Maler des Magic Realismus mit hyperrealistischen Nüssen und präzisen Stillleben – eine faszinierende Reise in die psychische Tiefe.
A child shown frontally with vivid and bright colours, almost ‘vitrified’, holds a soap bubble painted with stunning transparencies and luminosity. It is a refined reference to the theme of the bulla, the amulet hinting at the fragility of earthly life. The image shows a crystal-clear optical definition, a mysterious stillness of gestures and gazes, an enamelled luminosity of the colour spread with geometrical precision, all those characteristic elements of Cagnaccio’s work. He adopted the metaphysical interpretation of ‘Magic realism’ which followed in the wake of the best Italian drawing tradition, prior to Raphael and Renaissance.
Details zum Kunstwerk
- Titel: The Soap Bubble
- Künstler: Cagnaccio di San Pietro
- Jahr: 1927
- Originalmaße: 5.0 x 40.0 cm
- Format: Portrait
- Urheberrechtlicher Status: Gemeinfreiheit
- Hauptfarbe: Celadon
- Empfundene Helligkeit: bright