Lago umbro 1942

Gerardo Dottori made 'Lago umbro' with some kind of brushy paint, maybe oil or acrylic, who knows! It's this weird bird’s eye view of a lake surrounded by hills. I’m trying to imagine him painting this, layering blues and greens. It’s like the landscape is breathing, spiraling inward towards the water. The paint isn't too thick, but you can still see the strokes, especially in the way he renders those trees. They’re like little dashes, a flurry of green marks that give texture to the hills. I bet he was thinking about speed and movement, kinda futurist but in a landscape-y way. I'm into how the colors shift from those deep greens to paler blues up top, almost like a gradient. It reminds me of other painters who were trying to capture the feeling of flight, like Crali. You know, that push and pull between representation and abstraction. It’s like Dottori is saying, “Here’s a lake, but it’s also a feeling, a memory, a dream.” And that's what keeps painting alive, right?