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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

The abandoned cart

Serafino Macchiati

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Pinacoteca il Divisionismo

Pinacoteca il Divisionismo

Corso Leoniero, 2, Tortona

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Le charrue abandonnée manifests the author's decisive evolution in a pointillist key, undertaken starting in 1900, the year in which he hosted his friend Balla for a few months. Characterized by a composition as effective as it is simple, the canvas is flooded with a seductive pink hue that from the wide strip of land invades the horizon that fades into the blue, interrupted only by the long oblique trace of the distant railway, by the thin tree-lined border and by the carcass of the plow abandoned for the winter, now an inseparable part of the landscape of which it collects colors and moods. In the foreground, the brushstroke is fringed in subtle touches that superimpose a dense and dynamic blue texture on the more compact surface of the reddish field. In a certain sense, Macchiati extricates himself from the ideology of Divisionist technicism to rediscover that serenity that was typical of the great nineteenth-century masters such as Franҫois Millet who, in a plow found in the field, draw the strength to tell the humble life of peasants. The theme of the work of the earth is treated without rhetorical concessions, and testifies to Macchiati's socialist inclination already evident in Rome and refreshed in Paris by the acquaintance of the writer, journalist and very human revolutionary Henri Barbusse.
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Title: The abandoned cart

Author: Serafino Macchiati

Date: 1903

Technique: Oil painting on canvas

Displayed in: Pinacoteca il Divisionismo

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