Vincenzo Ciardo

Morning on Corso Vittorio, 1948, oil on masonite, 28×34 cm

(Gagliano del Capo, October 23, 1894 – September 26, 1970) His style is post-impressionist with roots in naturalism. From 1920 he dedicated himself to the artistic genre of landscape, and found employment as a teacher in a technical high school in Pozzuoli. In 1928, new demands and new fermentations stirred the Neapolitan artistic environment, and Ciardo himself was involved in them, starting a total revision of the painting problem to "restore an 'order' outside the banalities of easy pleasantness". From 1940 to 1965, after teaching for several years drawing the figure at the Artistic High School of Naples, he was the director of the Free Landscape School at the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples. Present at the most important national exhibitions, he held solo exhibitions in the main Italian cities and abroad. In the work on display, the reference to Cézanne is evident in the search for volume and tonal perspective.