Luigi de Angelis

Carriages at Ischia - Original Oil Painting on Panel by Luigi de Angelis - 1956

1956

Luigi de Angelis was born in 1883. A young Pier Paolo Pasolini was curious and attracted by the artistic production of the Ischian artist and wrote these words, "In front of his dirty skies where just bright ribs stretch out, as if softly terrified, painted with a dirty brush, almost without color; in front of his figures, which are often nothing but a shining drop of white lead squashed miserably with a brush, against a background just stained with gray, we would speak almost of a poor metaphysics. In short, the poor metaphysics of which we spoke is . . . his intimate way of being, which gives him consciousness and configures the world theoretically and poetically. This is why his painting relies on primitiveness and freshness, the remains of their usual attributes, charges instead of a confused and opaque melancholy."