Filippo Palizzi (Vasto, 1818 - Naples, 1899). country scene with a shepherd and goats. 50x62, Oil paint on canvas. ...

Filippo Palizzi (Vasto, 1818 - Naples, 1899). country scene with a shepherd and goats. 50x62, Oil paint on canvas. Signed on the lower right. "With Filippo Palizzi you the first start of pictorial realism. After school of Posillipo observation of the real becomes the object of pictorial speculation. Since the '50s became interested in photography and practical tech savvy. He used the photos that he the same developed, such as observation and models for his paintings. In this way he developed an immediate and direct naturalism, referring back to the Flemish animal school of the seventeenth century, but care a lot more detail, combining neo-classical dignity with genre painting of manners popular. its gone to Europe and Paris (1955) allows him to perfect the luministic investigation. Upon his return to stay in Florence. Here I met Giovanni Fattori and Macchiaioli. He says that one needs to look in modern painting are the subtleties and totality, with these concepts Palizzi defines his poetry which is based on a conception of his personal "stain" meaning that the "totality" It supposed to be the expression of all, the whole of the stain which had to be supplemented by the fineness, or from the yield of the subtleties perceptive. The chiaroscuro landscapes had to undergo meticulous attention, micrographic character of the effects of light and had to be made of brush tip to finally express the totality of the work. The painting in question is a typical example of such pictorial conception. Final product of what he himself called a cosmic naturalism. "STUDIO ASOR