Still life with pumpkin

Facciotto continued to explore nature also during the war, or rather, what remains of nature for man, when, for example, food and dishes are set out on a bare table. The painter's chiarismo here is attenuated, and is replaced, on the one hand, by a colour that seems lost, which covers the table and the walls, and on the other, by more brilliant colors, like the orange of the pumpkin that seems to be guarding the other objects, and above all by the crowd of peaches in the bowl, the interior of which is totally white. The freedom of perspective indicates the decisive influence of the most modern masters. In cases such as this one, the success of the picture lies entirely in the balance of its elements. Facciotto miraculously achieves, using only his instinct, what others, perhaps greater artists than him, are not always able to reach: the musicality of the vision and its freshness.