Tranquillo Cremona (Pavia, 10 April 1837 – Milan, 10 June 1878).
Tranquillo Cremona (Pavia, 10 April 1837 – Milan, 10 June 1878) was an Italian painter of second half of the 19th century. He was the brother of the mathematician Luigi trained as a young man with Giovanni Carnovali.[1] He lived in Venice from 1852-1859. Moving to Milan, he became part of the Scapigliatura movement, which congealed around a bohemian cafe culture of artists of different disciplines, infused with a combination of rebellious nationalist tendencies, and later anti-academic and anarchic. His paintings have an windswept disposition, lacking the linearity of Hayez and other academics. Among Cremona's contemporaries in this movement were Giuseppe Rovani, Corrado Bozzoni, Mario Broglio, Antonio Tantardini, Giuseppe Grandi, Ferdinando Fontana, and Daniele Ranzoni. The subjects are often mothers and children, or women at play; less commonly grand subjects. The brushstrokes creates often dazzling figures, scintillating their margins into their surroundings, often cryptic in meaning, other than a transient observation of human encounters and behaviors. It recalls the pittura de tocco e di macchia (painting of touch and dots) practiced by many from a mature Titian to Rembrandt to even 18th century Northern Italian baroque masters such as Crespi, Guardi, Piazzetta, and Bazzani. His painting titled La Melodia (1874, private collection) has a woman at a piano, in an impressionist desintegration, face swaying partially away, challenging us to view the musical composition as the subject of the brushstrokes, instead of persons or dimensional objects.[2] A work completed a few months before his death, L’edera (1878; The Ivy, referring only to a strand of the plant at one margin), one figure embraces passionately an aloof figure. The nature of the situation, perhaps even the gender of the person below, appear unsettled.[3] read
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