Antique oil painting on canvas depicting a rustic courtyard signed “Guido Casciaro 1900-1963”.

 Oil painting on canvas depicting a rustic courtyard signed Guido Casciaro 1900-1963 on the bottom left.

Historical Notes: He presents himself first and foremost as a great figurative painter, therefore far from any experimentation and consistent, from the beginning, with a poetics that will remain constant throughout the entire span of his production. Guido Casciaro is first and foremost a landscape painter.

Son of art, he studied at his father's school, living in a house/museum, an exclusive meeting place for artists and writers. A coveted place full of culture and art, in which the young Guido formed his own critical conscience.

And it is precisely this early awareness of the things of Art that leads him to detach himself, albeit with a certain pain, from his father's manner and technique.

Guido Casciaro has in fact shown, since his youth, that he technically prefers oil painting and that he has understood and absorbed the landscape lesson of the most up-to-date and innovative Neapolitan authors (from Crisconio to Viti, for example), thus choosing to portray spare, essential landscapes. , sometimes clearly ugly, which he enriches and enlivens with his pictorial material, with broad and concise brushstrokes of pure synthesis.

Conditions: Good condition.

Origin: Naples.