marcin
(Marcin)
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Moreover, in him there is the demand of
an art that ─ in the wake of Impressionist
painters ─ takes place en plein air, not so
much for the setting (in this sense,
countryside and sulfur mine are equivalent)
as for the different way of approaching
reality. The Impressionists’ experiments on
the multiple effects of light on objects, the
countless decompositions and
recompositions of light, filtered through the
myriad aspects of nature, are equated by Di
Giovanni with the radical choice of dialect.
The rejection of an official language in favor
of a “language” with high artistic
achievements (at the origins of the former)
but having become marginal, corresponds
for the Author to the Impressionists’ coming
out of their ateliers towards the air and the
light. It is precisely as a search for air that he
justifies his adhesion to dialect. Vincenzo