Aldo Luxardo

Born in Livorno in 1921, Aldo Luxardo (aka Aldo Lopez) attended the studies of the Livorno "masters" from his youth, such as Renato Natali, Gino Romiti, Ferruccio Mataresi, Cafiero Filippelli, as well as that of Pietro Annigoni, and learned from them the first elements of painting. Continuing the fertile artistic vein of the post-Macchiaioli, he immediately turns towards figurative languages derived from the Macchiaioli school. The daily outings to paint "en plein air" allow him to create, with great mastery of colours, lights and contrasts, the Tuscan coasts, the boundless Maremma lands, the splendid Livorno countryside; with particular attention he creates still lifes in the studio.