ARTIST CHIERICI GAETANO (GAETANO CHIERICI)
CLASSICISM 19TH CENTURY
Chierici Gaetano(Gaetano Chierici) was an Italian painter, one of those artists who have managed to portray the lives of ordinary people of Italy. Shifting on his canvases the life of ordinary workers and their children in all its colours and shades, the artist left a magnificent gallery of paintings, which is a striking evidence that distant time.
Born Gaetano Chierici in 1838 in the small town of Reggio-Эмилия whose inhabitants were mainly peasants engaged in agriculture. Life of the artist is inseparably linked with this surprising picturesque territory, quiet and frankly beautiful. Only eight years, the artist happened to live far away from his home in Florence, when he was artistic skills. And successfully mastered the craft of the painter, returned to his native place and lived there until the end of his days.
His first creations was devoted to the delightful scenery of this wonderful region. Eared endless fields, blooming meadows, green pastures and vast blue sky was drawn by the artist to the smallest detail and led the audience in amazement.
However, the greatest popularity and fame during his life the artist has brought not picturesque landscapes, and domestic painting. All subsequent creative activity Gaetano Chierici was inseparably associated with a picture of the life and household of the foundations of the peasants, or to be more precise, of their children from babies @- to teenagers.
the Artist liked to observe the young people of his native city, their habits, games and work, to which they were accustomed from early childhood. It is with such awe and tenderness wrote children working in the fields along with the adults caring for domestic animals, showing them in the home, as well as playing with peers in their free time duties.
And the most surprising works of the artist was that Gaetano portrayed both children and adults cheerful and happy, despite the poverty and hardships of their lives. That"s why this sparkling positive, masterfully displayed in his paintings, so attracted and continues to attract, as a half-century ago, his creations to the admiring gaze of the public.
of Course, the subtle instinct of nature, artistic vigilance of the famous Italian masters were of considerable help to him in creating masterworks. Pattern master wrote very skillfully and believable, imbuing them with not only a positive, and sometimes good humor.
And anything surprising was that soon the fame of the brilliant artist and his stunning works dispersed throughout Europe. For creative careers Gaetano has exhibited his creations to the public in Italy, Milan, Parma, Florence, Paris and Berlin, as well as in the United States. Four years in a row painting by talented Italian with great success and was exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts in London.
And it should be noted that the cost of paintings depicting peasant children, sold at the famous auction in Europe, during the life of the master was so high that he was known as a wealthy man.
Connoisseurs of art were touched to the depths of the artless world of childhood in the Italian countryside and the skill with which the artist embodies it in his paintings. And I have to say that without exaggeration, he was a virtuoso at creating genre scenes with tiny details poor peasant life.
he Died in his native town of Reggio-Эмилия the day of his birth, where a few years later in his honor called the local art school.
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Source: https://kulturologia.EN/blogs/220319/42545/
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