Contemporary Painting Mario Previ Oil Painting Oil on Glass Painting - The Seeding 1979

Features

Artist:  Mario Previ (1953)

Artwork title:  La semina

Age:  Contemporary

Subject:  Naïve painting

Artistic technique:  Painting

Technical specification:  Reverse Glass Painting

Description : La semina

Oil on glass. Signed and dated lower right, with the symbol of the artist, the stylized figure of a man in a wheelchair. On the back label with further signature and data of the work. The naive style painting proposes a moment of peasant life, or rather the sowing of the small field; the farmer works in the small plot of land, almost a vegetable garden, with the hens pecking around him, and green hills all around, illuminated by a huge, sparkling sun. It is a work on glass by the painter Mario Previ, who has been living and painting in a wheelchair since the age of eighteen, due to a tetraplegia resulting from a dip in his Taro. He said of himself : "The world, the passage of time, from this point of view (the wheelchair) teach many things. You learn to wake up every morning with a purpose, even if your body is in pain, if every gesture generates suffering and depend on others and giving up could be an easy solution. And instead, art, painting, together with the serenity of my world, of friends, give me incredible energy. They saved me, giving me the strength to live" . In 1974, three years after the accident, inspired by a television broadcast on Yugoslav naive painters, in particular by the works on glass of Mijo Kovacic, Previ began to paint and to learn the art of self-taught painting on glass, up to to be known and appreciated for his paintings. In his naif Mario Previ tells a reality that has almost disappeared, real stories even if in a fairytale tone, he revives lost traditions, slices of life that belonged to other generations, those of peasant civilization (from which, however, he comes), but what most emerges from his visions are the "forë", those that could once be heard in the "firossi" the traditional evenings of the hamlets of Parma dedicated to getting together to tell anecdotes, stories and historical curiosities, often in front of the fire in the fireplace, when outside it was cold and snowing. The work is presented in a frame.

Product Condition:
Product in very good condition which may show slight traces of wear; it may have undergone restoration work carried out by an expert. We try to present the real state as fully as possible with photos. If some details are not clear from the photos, what is reported in the description will prevail.

Frame Size (cm):
Height: 41,5
Width: 41,5
Depth: 4,5

Artwork dimensions (cm):
Height: 25
Width: 25