Hill landscape

The autumn red of the part of the landscape that is closest to us seems to flair up and cover the country houses that separate us from a pink horizon. The skill of Giulio Perina, who owes his compositional solidity to his continuous meditation on the art of Paul Cézanne, produces a small masterpiece enclosed in a small space. In fact, a normal landscape, perhaps even a trivial one, is transfigured by the scarlet lighting that pervades it, as if flames were rising from the bottom upwards, giving energy to a bare and static view. On the other hand, a fundamental characteristic of Perina’s art is to give a diagonal or vertical movement to his creations, as if a wind were shaking the foundations of the neatness of the underlying patterns. Thus, the triumph of color determines a Post-Impressionist effect, which has its distant origin in Fauve painting.