The Large Family - Italian impressionist painting

Special painting showing a large family. Made in an impressionist manner. Oil painting on canvas 70 x 100 - Signed Giuseppe Gianquinto (We are not certain - Signature difficult to read) 1999. Size 70 x 100. The work depicts a compact and dense group of human figures, rendered with an expressive synthesis between figurative and primitivism. The naked or lightly dressed bodies touch, overlap, hug each other: a sort of collected, fused, almost amalgamated humanity, as if the identity of the individual was important only as part of a larger community. The black contour lines mark the shapes, giving solidity and a very strong graphic sense to the figures. The line recalls that of Jean Dubuffet, Clemente or even Gino De Dominicis in his figurative phase.