Eugenio Mantegani Biography
Eugenio Mantegani (1929-2005) was a Milanese painter. Known for his Milanese views which he interprets in a lively and poetic way, Mantegani has built his artistic language through a notable impressionistic technique which, in addition to guaranteeing freshness and immediacy to the urban landscape, adds a poignant poetic vein to the scenes. The artist, in fact, uses a fast, synthetic brushstroke to quickly outline the shapes and volumes. This allows him to capture, in every single brushstroke, the effects of light and atmosphere on objects and to be able to bring a scene of city life with precise meteorological and environmental conditions onto the canvas with great immediacy. The entire color range, from the road to the sky, is in fact tuned to respect the precise atmospheric conditions that we want to represent. As in the Impressionists, then, the perspective grid is not eliminated, but the spatial depth is determined exclusively through color degradations.
