Anchise Picchi La fienaiola, 1963
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Anchise Picchi La fienaiola, 1963
oil painting on wood, cm 29.7x38.8
signed bottom left: A. Picchi
label with following data: Prof. Anchise Picchi / La fienaiola / cm 30x40 / oil painting on wood / A. Picchi 1963
Also traceable like Falciatori, to the artist’s so-called “second style”, the work entitled La fienaiola summarises the complexity of technical reflection started by Anchise Picchi in the 1960s, when, having passed the post-Macchiaiolo season, favours the transcription of country scenes that are increasingly distant from simple naturalistic descriptiveness.
It will once again be Luigi Servolini, mentor of the artist’s linguistic maturation, who enthusiastically mentions certain stylistic outcomes typical of the 1960s, when Picchi's “artistic conception” seems to be aimed “completely outside the provincial environment so dear to the artist”, at the same time as a use of brush strokes that were “increasingly subtle and tiny”, with reinforcement effects of the “plastic appearance of things”.
On the wave of this neo-pointillist language, the transcription of the rustic motif takes on a universal value, according to the aesthetic instance matured by Picchi as well as naturalism.