Mezzogiorno sulle Alpi – Giovanni Segantini, 1891
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description: Mezzogiorno sulle Alpi (High Noon in the Alps) by Giovanni Segantini, 1891Framed Canvas ArtAgainst a blazing cerulean sky and a panorama of snow-capped Alpine peaks, Mezzogiorno sulle Alpi centres on a young shepherdess in a deep cobalt blue dress and a straw hat, leaning against the pale silver trunk of a birch tree in a posture that reads as equal parts rest and watchfulness. Around her, a flock of cream-coloured sheep moves through a meadow of intense acid yellow-green, the grass rendered in thousands of individual comma-like strokes that hum with midday heat. Two lambs press close to the foreground, their fleece catching the high white light of noon, while the distant mountains dissolve into a cool haze of grey-blue and white. The compositional geometry is deliberate: the diagonal of the fallen birch limb cuts across the upright figure, locking her into the landscape rather than placing her above it. The handling is unmistakably that of Divisionism, the Italian variant of colour-separation painting: Segantini lays short parallel filaments of pigment side by side rather than blending them, so that the canvas vibrates with a luminosity that no smoothly worked surface could achieve.Segantini painted this work in 1891, the period now recognised as the peak of his mature Divisionist practice, when he was living at Savognin in the Graubünden canton of Switzerland. Having taught himself to paint with no formal academic training, he had spent the 1880s searching for a technique that could render the specific quality of Alpine light at altitude, where ultraviolet is unfiltered and shadows carry colour instead of weight. His discovery of the optical writings of Ogden Rood and the example of French Neo-Impressionism gave him the systematic method his eye demanded. Mezzogiorno sulle Alpi was exhibited at the 1891 Esposizione Triennale di Brera in Milan, where it drew wide critical attention and cemented Segantini's standing as the foremost Italian painter working outside th…
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  value: Gold, Silver, Dark Bronze
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