The painting is one of the most important among those known to date by Pietro Mangarini - a very active painter in the Roman scene. Dated 1906, The blue vase depicts a bourgeois interior in which a graceful female figure sits, leaning against a table set for breakfast. The two teacups and the hint of an empty chair make one think of a diner who has recently moved away, leaving the woman to her thoughts, or perhaps her readings. Caught in three quarters, with her beautiful head bent and her arm raised to cover her torso, the young woman has the lightness of an apparition in the soft backlight of the veranda flooded by a diaphanous light. The rich compartment on the right responds to the incorporeal girl, isolated on the left in front of the monochrome background, flickering of white matter capable of highlighting the soft purple hairstyle and small red lips, where the decorative abundance extends from the motif to sinuous floral geometries of the tablecloth to the stylized leaves of the slender tree beyond the open window, weaving a sophisticated exchange between natural and artificial peculiar to the liberty language. The palette is played on cold shades that decline every nuance of turquoise, mauve and cobalt down to white, and all are condensed in the chromatic rise of the vase, soaring from the exact center of the composition to welcome flowers with swollen corollas sprinkled with yellow , the only warm note, in a contrast of intense luminous effect.
Title: The blue vase
Author: Pietro Mengarini
Date: 1906
Technique: Oil painting on canvas
Displayed in: Pinacoteca il Divisionismo
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