Italian Artist Giovanni Segantini | Styles of Realism And Symbolism

Italian Artist, Giovanni Segantini 

Italian Artist Giovanni Segantini; ( January 15, 1858, Arco near Trento - September 28, 1899 on Mount Schafberg, Pontresina in the Engadine) - Italian landscape painter, painted in pointillist technique, worked in different years in styles of realism and symbolism.

Born into a poor family. He studied painting at the evening school at the Accademia di Brera in Milan. In 1886, he determined the theme of the works: the artist was attracted by distant landscapes with peasants and shepherds, made in a pointillist "dotted" style. This is his "Alpine triptych", consisting of paintings "Nature", "Life", "Death". The content and form of his paintings indicate the great attention paid by the artist to the details of the image. He repeatedly turned to religious themes: "Evening Sounds" (Ave Maria) (1887, Mershvil, private collection).

The artist's appeal to symbolism is felt primarily in his painting "Evil Mothers". In Segantini's later works, in addition to symbolist elements, Jugendstil tendencies are also easily guessed.

He was buried in the village of Maloya. The artist's granite slab is carved: “Art and love conquer time” (Italian: Arte ed amore vincono il tempo).