Armando Buse (XX) - Chioggia, Calle d'Oro

AUTHOR

Armando Buse (XX) was born in Chioggia and trained in the free, popular milieu of Chioggiotto street painters, still active in the twentieth century in practicing painting from life, made of direct observation and quick notes of light. His training is not academic, but an apprenticeship built on the ground, among canals and shores, refining a gaze sensitive to atmospheric effects and the daily movement of the lagoon city. In this context a post-Impressionist-inflected poetics emerges, recognizable in the vibrant brushwork, in the synthesis of forms and in an intense but harmonized color.

Her work sits in the wake of the great period between the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when Chioggia was frequented by European painters drawn to the quality of the light and to harbor life. Buse inherits this heritage and carries it into the twentieth century with an immediate and personal language, focusing on views, canals, boats, and popular figures, more interested in conveying the impression of the moment than in meticulous description. The result is a straightforward and lyrical painting, destined to preserve, through color and atmosphere, a living memory of the city.

Description

"Chioggia, Calle d'Oro", oil on canvas, 60*50cm with frame, 40*30cm the canvas only, 1979, signed bottom left. On the back, signature, title and date.

The canvas depicts an urban view of the lagoon city, intimate and everyday, captured along a calle that opens between rows of closely built houses, with bright facades weathered by time and narrow windows that mark the architectural rhythm. In the foreground the street leads the eye toward a brighter stretch, where small shops and striped awnings suggest workshops or an inn; on the right, a few patrons seated at tables animate the scene with a discreet presence, while on the left passersby and a bicycle appear, minimal elements capable of conveying the city’s lively, domestic atmosphere.

The composition is built in successive planes, with a simple and natural perspective that leads toward the background, while the architectures act as backdrops and frame the central emptiness of the street. The brushwork is loose and concise, more attentive to the overall impression than to analytic detail, and the color works in warm and powdery patches: ochre, sand, and beige dominate the facades and the ground, balanced by the bluish-gray of the sky and by the cooler shadows that cut across the calle. Armando Buse confirms the idea of a “street” and post-impressionist painting, born from direct observation and the search for light and atmosphere more than from topographic description: Chioggia is transcribed as a living memory, made of glints, passages, and daily gestures, in continuity with that twentieth-century tradition that preserves and renews, in a lyrical key, the heritage of the masters of en plein air.

Condition Report

Overall condition is good. The artwork is intact in every part with vivid, well-rendered color and brushwork. The frame is included at no charge.

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