In my thoughts (2002) Original Oil Painting by Federico Cortese

An original piece from the series “They sleep on the hill”, oil on canvas, 50 x 60 cm.

In the “Spoon River Anthology” the poet Edgar Lee Masters tells the story of the people buried in the cemetery of a small imaginary village. In Italy, the singer-songwriter Fabrizio De André published a famous collection of songs inspired by the anthology; the first piece of the collection is titled "They sleep on the Hill." I imagined to evoke in each of these paintings a little story about a person or an imaginary group of people. I try to make the story not too explicit but only vaguely mentioned. It may be a hidden love story, an underhand secret, a family conflict or an unpunished crime. It's not too important to understand the events involving these characters. After all, when you browse through old family albums you discover the faces of people who have become too unknown for the time spent, and we try to imagine how these people have lived. What connection linked them? They were happy? What really occupied their thoughts when the picture was taken?

Summary of features:

Medium & materials: oil on canvas
Thickness of the canvas: 2 cm
Finishing: protective gloss varnish (transparent mastic paint)
Location and year created: Turin, Italy - 2002
Certificate of Authenticity: included, with signature of the artist on photograph
Edges of the canvas: painted (the canvas can be hung without frame)
Signed: on the back

Materials used:

oil, canvas

Details:

• Oil painting on Canvas
• One of a kind artwork
• Size: 50 x 60 x 2cm (unframed)
• Signed on the back
• Style: Unspecified
• Subject: People and portraits