MSK Ghent

I visited the Museum today, saw a really beautiful painting by someone I never heard of before.
Felice Casorati. Casorati (December 4, 1883 – March 1, 1963) spent his childhood  in Novara, Italy  and showed an early interest in music and art. The works he produced in the early years of his career are naturalistic in style, but after 1910 the influence of the symbolists  and particularly of Gustav Klimt turned him toward a more visionary approach. In 1915 he had a solo exhibition at the Rome Secession III, where he showed several paintings and the first of his sculptures in varnished terracotta. The paintings for which he is most noted include figure compositions, portraits and still lifes, which are often distinguished by unusual perspective effects.

Casorati himself wrote, in 1931: "In taking up, against me, the old polemic of classicism and romanticism, people rail against intellectualized and scholastic order, accuse my art of being insincere, and wilfully academic—in a word, of being neoclassical. ... since my art is born, so to speak, from within, and never has its source in changing "impressions", it is quite natural that ... static forms, and not the fluid images of passion, should be reflected in my works"

This work made my day today! A real beauty!!