Masters of the Arts.
The Heirs of European Artistic Culture.
Ente Europeo Manifestazioni d’Arte, 1991.
Critical text by Milvia Vetri.
(Cover: reproduction of “The Visit” (La Visita) – 1991, cm 180 X 130, oil on canvas).

MICHELANGELO PERGHEM GELMI

Introduction.

Michelangelo Perghem Gelmi was a realist, figurative painter of great talent and a valuable representative of contemporary art. His body of works gained him a number of prizes and public recognition, bestowed on him by associations and cultural institutes around the world – he even became a member of some of them for his artistic achievements. Descriptions about his activity, detailed critical-biographical articles and work reproductions can be found in numerous critical reviews, catalogues, year-books and art publications.

Critical text by Milvia Vieri.

Through his body of work, Michelangelo Perghem Gelmi manages to establish a very important and vital relationship with the viewers, placing human experience in a contemporary context. Although his style recalls the Mannerism and Baroque movements, Perghem Gelmi breaks free from their conventions in a personal, original way, following a parallel path which is undoubtly new. Although the quality of his oeuvre is rooted in tradition and in his careful study of the artists of his time, it cannot be considered either a copy or at a distance from the artistic, cultural and social problems of our society. One of his works, an ironical reproduction of a Mantegna painting, quite an artistic challenge, stands as a proof of his expressive capacity. Perghem Gelmi knows human anatomy very well, and he portrays it following the most ancient and rigorous rules. He is also a master of perspective: he can place his figures armoniously within the painting, without disrupting his perfect geometrical sense. His great experience with colour and its chiaroscuro effects operates so that the painter is not only captivated by the figures in the foreground, despite their importance, but he manages to populate, with his apt paintbrushes, a background rich in colours and forms. The painter Perghem Gelmi stands out both for his great value and his attention for detail, which leads him to paint each fold in the clothes of his perfectly realistic figures.

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