Still life with flowers

Monfardini spent the last part of his life painting graceful landscapes, though slightly shallow – one must remember the promising beginning of his career, when as a young artist he shared the aspirations of the Futurist movement. In fact, and strangely, if we compare this period to the later one, the paintings composed in youth demonstrate a great capacity to cut through space realizing new perspectives in the vision of everyday life. The work we can admire here is a good example of this. The vases with plants stabilize a composition that is characterized by the flowing of forms from the edges towards the centre. The powerful hand of the figure carrying the small table on which there are some flowers is an evident sign of the influence of Boccioni, the same as his face and the intense colours that help to better perceive the painting as a whole. A remarkable painting, characterized by a restrained but very solid dynamism.