"Vincenzo MIGLIARO (1858 – 1938) - Maternity- Circa 1890."
Oil on panel
Signed at the top right Dimensions : 10 x 18 cm
With frame: 26.5 x 33.5 cm
Vincent Migliaro represents a scene full of smiles and tenderness. A woman, a nanny or a mother, supports a naked child. It stands on a cut trunk, like a sculpture on its base. The touch is free, poetic, without the painting being devoid, however, of precision and delicate details.
After learning the art of engraving, he was a student of the sculptor Stanislao Lista (1824-1908), then, at the Fine Arts of Naples, of Federico Maldarelli (1826-93), Raffaele Postiglione (1818-97) and Domenico Morelli. In 1877, he won the second prize in a national painting competition.Subsequently, he spent some time in Paris and Venice. At the time, two opposing trends came together in Migliaro's style: on the one hand, a spontaneous approach scrupulously respecting the effects of light and atmosphere, on the other, a roughness and an imprecision resulting in distortion and lack of realism.
He painted figures, landscapes and scenes of genre.Sa the main source of inspiration was the customs, life and people of the small Neapolitan people, as well as the activity of the residents of the Spanish quarter. The last years of his life, he was appointed director of painting at the Academy of Naples.Il exhibited in Turin, Venice, Naples and Paris.
Museum :
. Naples (Museum of Modern Art), Rome (Museum of Modern art)
Bibliography : ."Vincenzo Migliaro", Benezit, Oxford Art Online, 201