Red Bows

The painting of Alessandro Zenatello (1891-1977) is nourished by the themes offered by rural life: the open and serene landscape of the Veneto countryside, populated with natural elements and human figures. The painter matures an unmistakable style: straightforward, descriptive but not puerile, rich in inventiveness and compositional gimmicks. The texture of the painting remains high, with marked brushstrokes, the freshness of color is highlighted through lively counterpoints, and the simplification of form is achieved with a kind of synthetic architecture of wide and precise well-calibrated signs. This is evidenced in the painting "Red Bows", a portrait from 1914.