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Idyll. The tree of Life
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Landscape. Study
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Viaticum
The melancholy of the sun
Pasture
The gray village
Landscape
The abandoned cart
Maternity
Adoration of the Magi
The way to Calvary
Penumbra
Suburb
Morning
Autumn afternoon
Morning
Figure of a Woman (Portrait of Violette)
The nostalgic hour on Mé-Nam
Portrait of Armando Mazza
House under construction
Concierge (Concierge)
Self-portrait
Self-portrait
Vallon to Volpedo
January in Padua
In Fiumelatte from the railway underpass
Vibrant
The blue vase
The candle
The long wait
Medieval motif
Drawings for a fresco. Mary Magdalene at the foot of the cross
The woman of the emigrant
Idyll. The tree of Life
Portrait of Giovanni Cantù
Study of figures for spring idyll
May morning
The bridge
Portrait of peasants (Portrait of Signora Battegazzore)
Portrait of a peasant owner
Will be
The exit of the workers from the Pirelli factory
Night work at Termini Station
Piazza Caricamento in Genoa
Reflections of a hungry. Study
Strike
Ona city street
Tears
Painful reflections
To the Italian economic kitchens
I remember when I was a girl
The search for light. Study for central triptych image
Caryatids
Harvesting hay
The sower
Morning in the workshop
Going to the factory
Solitude
The sun
Hail Mary in transit
Robbery
Believers
Return from the alp
Maize on the farmyard
On the Ligurian coast (Sulla costa ligure)
Curious old women
San Martino d'Albaro
Maternal love
April morning
April sun
Midday in Manarola
The disk of the sun
Summer. Morning
Landscape. Study
Rainy day
Spring in Val Sassina
Viaticum
The melancholy of the sun
Pasture
The gray village
Landscape
The abandoned cart
Maternity
Adoration of the Magi
The way to Calvary
Penumbra
Suburb
Morning
Autumn afternoon
Morning
Figure of a Woman (Portrait of Violette)
The nostalgic hour on Mé-Nam
Portrait of Armando Mazza
House under construction

Idyll. The tree of Life

Giuseppe Pelizza da Volpedo

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Pinacoteca il Divisionismo

Pinacoteca il Divisionismo

Corso Leoniero, 2, Tortona

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The continuous and constant feedback with nature is the fundamental fact of the entire production of the master of Volpedo. The subjects, taken from life, always acquire a different, metaphorical and absolute meaning in Pellizza; his painting challenges contingency by becoming a means to talk about universality, to tell about becoming to express the eternal. Idyll. The tree of life is a composition of great impact, despite its modest size, thanks to the lean and carefully constructed plant hinged on the dominant element of the imposing bare tree and its overbearing shadow, evocatively described by the typical Pellizziano backlight and wrapped in the round shape of the support, which collects everything in an ideal size. The symmetry of the painting is nourished by the dynamic dialogue between the main trunk and the two laterally rearward, inclined in opposite directions to activate a centrifugal trend that the circularity of the canvas makes evident. The blue and red brushstrokes on the broken lines of the branches and on the mighty cylinder of the stem stand out, which in a skilful play of complementaries are confronted with the fresh liveliness of the lawn interwoven with yellows, ocher and greens and dotted with white reflections.
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Title: Idyll. The tree of Life

Author: Giuseppe Pelizza da Volpedo

Date: 1896

Technique: Oil painting on canvas

Displayed in: Pinacoteca il Divisionismo

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