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Among
the Lombard painters, still active, Francesco Ros (Milan, 1950) is one
of the most singular for the attention he pays to the painting from
life where he inserts also the happy tradition of the light painting
of the thirty, without forgetting that happy intuitions of the impressionist
French picture, charged of an extraordinary poetry.
And
whereas today in art everybody attempts and chases research way dying
in themselves, Francesco Ros has gone the way of the heart, of poetry
and the miraculous sensing the dearest spots of his town and the Lombard
land. The path he went over years is certified by well-known names that
it is worth quoting: Enosrio Mastrolonardo, teacher at Brera, the historian
Mario Monteverdi and the dear Dino Villani.
The first one observed the objective return from life, in a visual tension
that makes palpitate the image in an almost unreal light; the second
has remarked the memory of objects revived in a new light key; the third
one highlighted that Ros is one of those artists that paints really
in all sincerity.
Ros has been since ever a landscape painter, mainly he belongs to that
group of artists that painted the Italian landscape, and sometimes featured
in the tone structure by Dufy-kind signs that some way give him a special
characterization and immediacy.
Almost
wanting to build and ossify a landscape making it rise in light, formerly
more solar today more clear and pearly.
Not less beautiful flowers, absolute but also present in landscapes,
and still, portrays and the figures of personages dear to him, the nymphs
and the waters of the Lombard rivers and lakes, the ship canals that
are a special veining of the ancient and new Milan, the dearest basilicas
of his town, starting from the Cathedral up to San Lorenzo.
Mainly Ros is a heart painter since it's just his heart to motivate
the selection of spots, streets, lands and environs, objects touching
his sensibility and that entrust his meditation, his loneliness, the
atmospheres that run daily as pages of a dairy or calendar.
I'm among the few historians to have appreciated since ever this sincere
painting that paints besides with the heart, with its most hidden pains.
It's
no easy today painting landscape, and neither in his heart plot that
light makes discover slowly in the most different hours.
The
high margins of this painting are just in this freshness of matter that
opens windows of light lying bare this authentic Lombard painting that
today is deeply neo-lighting kind, meaning that lighting does not mean
only light painting , but a deeply moral painting.
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