Morning in Creys

The melodramatic character and the mystical sense of the solitude of the landscape, illuminated by a diffuse and tenuous light that contrasts with the shadowy planes, aggravated by a notion of terrible sublime, catch the expression of the Romantic sentiment, but also of a Fontanesi-influenced painting based on observation of nature. During this decade, Alfredo de Andrade, a travelled and informed artist living in Italy, referred to "verism" and the iconographical record, the importance of light and colour studies and also the "new school", situated between realism and an interpretive freedom. The onyric tranquillity of the landscape, at twilight, transmits a new and ambiguous understanding of nature, both in its Romantic space-time conception and in the presentation of the truth in art and nature, placing it in the Ultra-Romantic school, but tending towards Naturalism for its analysis of the atmospheric values of colour and light.