Landscape of an Italian village (Pescara, d’Anunzio’s native land)

This picture was painted during his last years of studies in Monza, in preparation for the exhibition of young Italian artists in Milano. This is the view of Pescara, a city on the Adriatic coast to which leads an ordinary Italian road lined with trees and interspaced with white houses and with mountains on the horizon. The painter renders the charm of Italian nature by the masterful use of painting devices: he puts the vast and crisp blue of the sky against the warm and snug colours of the earth, thus creating the contrast between the lucent sky with scattered, hardly visible clouds and the weighty shapes of the earth – the road, the trees and houses. The picture emanates a serene and happy mood. Here, this simple and modest motif acquires a broader meaning – a unique generalisation of the perfect Italian nature.

Source: Law firm Valiunas Ellex art album THE WORLD OF LANDSCAPES I (2010). Text authors Nijolė Tumėnienė, Dalia Tarandaitė
Expositions: "Under Italian Skies. Lithuanian artists’ works from the 18th– first half of the 20th centuries", 1 December 2017 – 19 August 2018, Vilnius Picture Gallery (Didžioji St. 4, Vilnius). Curators: Dalia Tarandaitė (project leader), Rūta Janonienė, Giedrė Jankevičiūtė; "A Glance at the History of Lithuanian Art from Užupis", 30 August 2018 – 1 June 2019, Lithuanian Art Centre TARTLE (Užupio St. 40, Vilnius). Curator Giedrė Jankevičiūtė.

This picture was painted during his last years of studies in Monza, in preparation for the exhibition of young Italian artists in Milano. This is the view of Pescara, a city on the Adriatic coast to which leads an ordinary Italian road lined with trees and interspaced with white houses and with mountains on the horizon. The painter renders the charm of Italian nature by the masterful use of painting devices: he puts the vast and crisp blue of the sky against the warm and snug colours of the earth, thus creating the contrast between the lucent sky with scattered, hardly visible clouds and the weighty shapes of the earth – the road, the trees and houses. The picture emanates a serene and happy mood. Here, this simple and modest motif acquires a broader meaning – a unique generalisation of the perfect Italian nature.

Source: Law firm Valiunas Ellex art album THE WORLD OF LANDSCAPES I (2010). Text authors Nijolė Tumėnienė, Dalia Tarandaitė
Expositions: "Under Italian Skies. Lithuanian artists’ works from the 18th– first half of the 20th centuries", 1 December 2017 – 19 August 2018, Vilnius Picture Gallery (Didžioji St. 4, Vilnius). Curators: Dalia Tarandaitė (project leader), Rūta Janonienė, Giedrė Jankevičiūtė; "A Glance at the History of Lithuanian Art from Užupis", 30 August 2018 – 1 June 2019, Lithuanian Art Centre TARTLE (Užupio St. 40, Vilnius). Curator Giedrė Jankevičiūtė.