Alfredo Grimaldi (1950) - La costa in fiore

Alfredo Grimaldi – “The flowering coast”

A village of light-colored houses descends along the slope until it meets an intense blue sea. The buildings follow one after another with red and pink roofs, dark windows and illuminated walls, immersed in vegetation rendered through touches of green, yellow and fuchsia. The mountainous profile in the background accompanies the descent of the coast and leads the gaze toward the opening of the horizon.
In the small harbor, white and red boats float on water threaded with quick reflections. The slender masts of the vessels introduce vertical marks within a composition dominated by the diagonal movement of the landscape. In the foreground, yellow, orange and pink flowers form a lively frame, creating the sensation of watching the village from a flowering terrace.
The free brushwork and saturated color give energy to the view, concentrating in the small format a great variety of accents. The scene returns the charm of a coast that is inhabited and luminous, where the sea, the houses and the blooms share in the same atmosphere of joyful vitality.