Adriano Gajoni

Adriano Gajoni, (Milan, October 29, 1913 - Milan, March 26, 1965) was an Italian painter.
Life.
Gajoni was born in Milan, he was also active in Paris. He initially studied with Giovanni Borgonovo, then at a very young age he was admitted to the Accademia di Brera, starting his artistic activity early, he became passionate about the study of painters ombard seventeenth century, still At a very young age he taught drawing for four years to support himself in fine arts studies. He will then become Professor for eight years at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan.
He preferred landscapes, still life and portraits. He mainly practiced oil painting on wood and hardboard. He never liked to appear, preventing his works from arriving at auction.
He died in 1965 at the age of 52 from the consequences of a car accident, leaving his two daughters, Cristina and Rita, and his wife Dolores. He was buried in the Milan Cemetery.
Painting style.
The art critic Angelo Panerai writes: " «Rigorous balance, wise distribution of lights and volumes, impression of solidity and architecture. All so thought out, so necessarily functional that the eye passes over this intelligent painting without ever noticing the slightest imbalance. The tones themselves obey this harmonious criterion that does not admit of coloristic affectation: a few whites and abundant warm colors unmistakably mark this nourished painting, but where one never feels the labor of creation »". Still lifes reflect the humble things of our home and our canteen, emanating that almost religious sense of secular use that dresses them with unexpected nobility [...] oriented towards a constant search for color and formal perfection. "Tradition felt not as an empty resonance, but an elaboration of a loving study by the great Lombard seventeenth century artists by a cultured and severe spirit". Adriano Gajoni, is " «Milanese painter of strict figurative observance, mainly devoted to Still life, to" fairy tale compositions "and allegorical and to" fantasies with mannequins and statues "» (Bruno Rosa Stincone). L'arte di Adriano Gajoni ha "«un fondo di umano lirismo, di poesia»" (Silvio Biscaro). While the compositional choices reveal an evident debt towards the Dutch painting and Flemish of the XVIII century (Günter Meißner). Gajoni è interprete di un realismo minuzioso di lontana ispirazione fiamminga (Paolo Bolpagni).