Mantuan Chiarismo

In the same year, at the 4th Exhibition of the regional Workers' Unions of Fine Arts in Lombardy in Milan, Del Bon met the two young Mantuans,Oreste Marini and Ezio Mutti, thanks to the mediation of Umberto Lilloni.

The following month of August, this little group met again in Castiglione, giving birth to that particular artistic variation called “ Chiarismo Mantovano”.

Still in 1933 Nene Nodari depicts a portrait of his master Vindizio,already marking an independent style and at a party on New year's eve, Nene got to know Oreste Marini better and started a close and devoting friendship.It was actually Marini who spoke to her about Angelo Del Bon's first developments in light tones, dated indeed in 1933, and to convey to her the charm of those experiments.

While Marini switched between the sweet loving flirt and the narration of his art plots,young Nene's attention was driven towards the party that was forming in Mantua and whereby Del Bon, Lilloni, Marini, Mutti, Facciotti, Malerba and eventually Nene met between Castiglione and Castel Goffredo.

An enchanting portrait of young Nene, proud of her bright yellow jumper as though it were a tiara, dated by Oreste Marini,not by chance, in 1933 ( presently kept at MAM in Gazoldo degli Ippoliti), bears witness of both their reciprocal enthusiasm for their akin artistic perspectives and the delighted and heart-felt outcome of the aesthetic research of her suitor.

This fellowship brought to Northern Mantua a breeze of national and European culture.

The fragility in the representations created by the school in Castiglione grew together with those images in which post-impressionist rememberances represented the humble and transient existence of mankind.

Thus the painter became a poet, free to paint in lines of inspired splendour,not much what he saw but that which he saw and recreated.

This is how a pictorial narrative originated, in the stillness of the countryside and of the hills close to Garda Lake, which was also devised with the land of sinuous and round elevations, moulded after centuries of man's interventions and farming.