Paesaggio or Lirica al tramonto

The painting is from the Nuove Tendenze movement, a moderately avant-garde group that held its first – and only – show in Milan in 1914. Here the depiction, although seeking the “compenetration” of the various planes of depth, adapts to a naturalistic, objective yardstick, but also imposes, in its bird’s-eye view as if in flight, the impetuous rush of a passage which, beyond the plains stretching along the line of the perspective and also beyond the mountainous horizon line, seems to hurl itself forward, as if sucked into the swirling mass of clouds and vivid light of the sky. The chord of colours is founded upon the orchestration of red tones, those of the land on which the sunset reverberates, and of golden and reddish spots, those of the setting sun, which open onto the blue of the sky, while the greens are drumming on the surface, eliciting distant echoes.