Tino Aroldi (1915-2000) is the major local painter of the 20th century who worked with landscapes during the passage of liberation from the historical human presence.
In his paintings from 1945/46, the colour is applied with free, dark, substantial, constructive brush strokes à la Cézanne, and the palette is rich of bright and, sometimes, vivid colours. Nonetheless, the painter preserves a stable control of form and of the narrative trend of the image without letting himself be dominated by the matter; his subjects are bucolic houses, colonnades, poplar rows and cultivated fields. All these subjects reveal the need for authenticity, rooting and discovery of agricultural landscape – the latter being shaped by man’s work – which was typical of the culture of those years.
Donated by Carla Aroldi, 2007
