Dredger on the Ombrone
The artist offers here his particular predilection for the aspects of modern farming present in Maremma, a proud symbol of liberation from the earlier depressed economy. The presence of a crane and light poles bears witness to the arrival of technology, applied without upsetting the harmony between built environment and
The Marketplace
The market scene looks like a reworking of a photograph taken with a wide-angle lens. Gentili often used snapshots which he enlarged and squared off in his studio to furnish an objective, realistic scheme of the views, which he then enlivened with paint to infuse them with feeling.
Outskirts
In Gentili’s works modern technology is inserted seamlessly into history and nature in a positive vision of industrial progress typical of the post-war period. The modest houses, built in a rural style and accompanied by vegetable gardens, stand against a background of a factory chimney and tall apartment buildings announcing
Santa Fiora. The Fish Pool
In this early work, Vagaggini played with reflections to create a distance that renders an intellectual perception of visible reality: The sky is below, reflected in the water above the roofs of the houses, while the leafy branches of a big tree cover the actual sky, forming a green barrier
View of Orbetello
In the 1940s Vagaggini abandoned his ideal world of geometric perfection and introduced the unfolding of time into his paintings. The surfaces wrinkle, move, and vibrate with a shiver of natural life; the skies watch the clouds passing by, the colours blend and merge with nuances not seen before in
Castiglione della Pescaia
The sunny, deserted shore stretches parched under a crystalline sky made almost colourless by the heat of the sun. In the centre of the canvas, the artist’s gaze places the outline of Castiglione high on the horizon, balanced on the sides by two symmetrical plateaus, achieving a visual equilibrium that
Marsh
Negli anni Trenta il pittore adotta un azzurro tutto suo, luminoso e astratto: la visione è limpida, cristallina, misurata dall’occhio e dalla mente a comporre una struttura ferma e silenziosa, assoluta e geometrica, quasi irreale per la sua magica perfezione.
Self-portrait
This large painting was inspired by a photograph of the painter on the beach, which he used in 1934 to compose a painting that maintained the setting beside the sea. The following year, Vagaggini reworked the same image, setting it now in the broad expanse of the Maremman countryside, silent
Panorama of Manciano
The town of Manciano in the background sheds its urban identity to become a solid, irregular construct of plastered bricks suggesting a compact, cohesive structure, analogous to the haystacks in the foreground. The painter emphasizes the balance achieved between man and nature in his native land, which had given him,
Olive Grove
The light, bright colours suggest the painter’s joy at depicting the serene harmony created between the silver of the olive trees, the acid green of the pasture grass, the white fleece of the sheep, and the scattered red spots of the poppies and the shepherd girl’s dress. With affection and
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