Milan's industrial poetry rendered in pure colour.
Architectural planes of cadmium yellow and ultramarine rise cleanly against the canvas, while their reflections ripple into broken, gestural brushwork in the water below. The artist creates a deliberate tension between the engineered structure of the harbour and the painterly instinct of the reflection, using knives or brayers for the crisp colour fields and fluid brushwork for the water. This is a portrait of infrastructure infused with feeling; one part is built, the other is breathed.
G. (Giosuè) Campagna was an Italian painter born in Sarsina (Forlì-Cesena) in 1910.
During his life, he lived and worked in several places across central and northern Italy. He graduated from the Artistic High School in Genoa, where he was influenced by the city’s avant-garde art movements and began to develop his own style. Later, he moved to Milan, where he spent most of his life, though he often traveled for exhibitions and work.
In the 1980s, Campagna was especially active in Cesena and nearby coastal towns along the Riviera Romagnola, between Milano Marittima and Cesenatico, mainly during the spring and summer.
He became a painter out of passion and instinct—a naturalist who loved to paint the mountains, still lifes, and landscapes.
Medium: Oil on canvas
Inscription on Verso: Titled "Il Porto" and priced "200.000".
Condition: Framed in a simple painted wood frame with minor wear to corners. Canvas clean and stable.
Height 50cm / 20”
Width 60cm / 24”
