Warm and earthy colors are those that usually characterize autumn, one of the two intermediate seasons in which the landscapes show carpets of red and yellow leaves.
Among the autumn representations present at the GAM there are two that are striking for the great ability of the artists to represent the landscape in the guise of this season.
Antonino Leto’s olive harvest shows a Sicilian landscape on a day without sun, in which light has filtered through the blanket of clouds. The colors evoke autumn: from the gray of the clouds, to the luminous yellowish atmosphere, to the reddish color that covers some of the rocks in the lower part of the picture. A large part of the canvas is occupied by the crowns of the so-called “Saracen” olive trees under which the farmers work with the harvest.
Michele Catti, on the other hand, in Autumn, paints a landscape in which he shows the hostilities of this season: a menacing wind and pouring rain strike a female figure along the way.