Ugo Celada of Virgil - Composition with Flowers 1984

Features

Artist:  Ugo Celada da Virgilio (1895-1995)

Artwork title:  Composizione con Fiori

Age:  20th Century / 1901 - 2000

Subject:  Floral Composition

Origin:  Italy

Artistic technique:  Painting

Technical specification:  Oil on Canvas

Description : Composizione con Fiori

Oil painting on canvas. Signed and dated below. The composition proposes a vase with white calla lilies, on a background of uniformly blue drapes and tablecloths. Born in 1895 in Virgilio, in the province of Mantua, - hence the addition to the surname of the toponym probably in homage to the Latin poet-, Ugo Celada first studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Mantua and then moved on to the Brera Academy in Milan as a pupil of Cesare Tallone. After the interlude of the First World War, in which he participated as a volunteer, he devoted himself completely to pictorial research, also staying in Paris to study and deepen the new artistic trends. Already in 1920 he participated in the Venice Biennale, immediately revealing his tendency to a lenticular realism, played on the transparency of the bright and clean color, and on the meticulous search for precision. Still lifes, nudes, portraits, trompe l'oeil, were inserted by him in almost surreal contexts but very close to reality, in enigmatic atmospheres defined with a clear and precise design. At the beginning of the 1930s Celada definitively broke with the twentieth century current and indeed founded an anti-twentieth century Manifesto in Mantua, in which she attacked the monopoly of the regime culture, and rather approached Magic Realism and the New Objectivity of the contemporary Sciltian. Since then he avoided any exposure (he was one of the few successful artists not to be compromised with the fascist culture and its celebration), living thanks to the orders of the Milanese bourgeoisie who adored him, and dedicating himself exclusively to a pictorial research based on the objective description of the reality, resulting in the founding of the Objectivist Painters movement in 1959. He continued to paint until old age, dying in Varese at the age of one hundred. Celada's painting is capable of blocking reality in time and space, in a way that appears detached, analytical and scientifically exact (colors, reflections, transparencies), but communicating - as opposed to a total unreality - a great narrative pathos. The painting presented here belongs to the latest production of Celada, where the strong chromaticity, almost surreal, stands out alongside the meticulous descriptive realism. The work is presented in a frame.

Product Condition:
Product in good condition, with small signs of wear.

Frame Size (cm):
Height: 79
Width: 59
Depth: 4