Mascarini Giuseppe (Bologna 1877-Milan 1954) - Portrait

Giuseppe Mascarini (Bologna 1877 - Milan 1954) - Portrait of Carla oil painting on canvas with gilded frame Painting dimensions: width 49.5 cm, height 68 cm Frame dimensions: width 75 cm, height 95 cm Published in "Giuseppe Mascarini 1887-1954. A palette between two centuries" Skira Edition 2016 - page 85 plate 87 Information about the author: He lived and worked always in Milan. He studied at the Brera Academy. Gifted for drawing and painting, he won prizes in 1896 and 1897 when he participated for the first time in the Brera exhibitions. In 1900 the Academy appointed him "Honorary Member" and later he was called to be part of the permanent painting commission. He spent the first years of the century in Paris where he studied the painting of the great masters of the past and followed the new pictorial trends that were advancing in the climate of general renewal. Influences of themes such as symbolism, divisionism, can be found in his paintings of the first decades of the '900. Belonging to this period are the large canvases "The Dream" 1909, "The Visitor" 1909, "Ancient Ballad" 1916 and the large alpine landscapes where the tripartition of the horizons, the divisionism, the skies that lead to infinity, the visual perception bring back reminiscent of Puvis Chevannes, Hodler and Segantini. Mascarini loves the mountain and during the summer stays the beautiful Val Bregaglia is the scenario of many landscapes represented by him. But there is not only the landscape painting for Mascarini but also that of figure because nature and humanity are in him two equally alive terms, both generators of inspiration. In his figure paintings he prefers to observe rather than interpret with arbitrariness, to keep as close as possible to the subject rather than load it with extreme meanings. His brushstrokes, the strength of the drawing and the warmth always suggest a vision of serene and familiar calm, a warm unity of tone, a measure, a contained and spontaneous impulse.