Antonino Sartini


Antonino Sartini was an Italian painter. He has been called the "painter of serenity" and belongs to that group of landscape painters of the early 1900s, such as Luigi and Flavio Bertelli, Ferruccio Giacomelli, Giovanni Romagnoli, Gino Marzocchi and Garzia Fioresi, who painted the Emilia-Romagna landscapes, reproducing its beauty and witnessing its changes over time, with the paintbrush.

Style

The psychological and aesthetic attitude of many of his works is of a crepuscular matrix, sweetly vespertine. Sartini's painting certainly has something of the Macchiaioli style, as well as undergoing the well-known influences of Bertelli. In fact, Umberto Beseghi writes:
His way of painting is characterized by light touches, round spots, which give a sense of form, without weighing it down with contours or accentuated masses. In many of his works, in fact, everything appears to be intuited in its essence, as hinted at if not even reconstructed and humanized, through a light, never coldly descriptive image of things, where the viewer remains free to complete it and contemplate it with his own feeling. Many of his paintings testify to this, including Bucato al sole from 1930, Paesaggio from 1931, owned by the Gallery of Modern Art in Bologna, Lungo il rio from 1935, and Tessitrice from 1940..File:Donna in riva al fiume - Antonino Sartini.jpg|thumb|391x391px|Donna in riva al fiume , 1946. Private collection.Sartini does not limit himself to painting landscapes, but also portraits. And in the portrait Sartini knows how to grasp that intimate truth that puts the subject out of time: Portrait of Flavio Bertelli of 1931, Nostalgia of 1935, Contemplazione of 1942. About him, Umberto Beseghi wrote in 1956: