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.
Giosue Campagna was born in Sarsina, Italy in 1910. He graduated Artistic High School in Genoa and then moved to Milan where he spent much of his life, He loved painting landscapes and still lifes.
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.
