Great flowers
Technical Details
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Title
Great flowers -
Author
Filippo De Pisis (Filippo Tibertelli) -
Year
1930 -
Dimensions
cm 81 x 53 -
Inventory
5078 -
Room
41 A
The genesis of De Pisis’ flower paintings is rooted in his adolescence, when he was interested in botany and catalogued the various types of plants and flowers he collected. In these paintings the eye seems unable to dwell on a single detail, attracted as it is by so much chromatic vivacity and the rapidity of touches and brushstrokes; the vision seems to shatter to give way to a visual experience that rather than the realistic detail looks at the globality of sensation.
Large flowers sees many botanical types gathered in a huge bouquet, placed in a vase that is next to books and is in front of a painting. The motif of the picture within a picture seems almost incongruous in an already so rich canvas, but it perfectly symbolizes De Pisis’ inexhaustible visual taste, aimed at exaggeration, at the outsized fullness of aesthetic fulfillment.
