Sunset in Valtrompia (Filippini)
It is a work in which the evidence of Filipinoism is full, the artistic movement of Francesco Filippini that was born in opposition and response to Claude Monet, in which the social denunciation of women's work, their importance and their dignified effort is alive, as mothers and workers, compared to the coloristic works of the French Impressionists who find space in the salons of American collectors, who do not care about violations of academic rules and love color and image, willing to pay beyond the usual price. The movement created by Filippini, precisely called Filippinismo, of which he is only the creator, after a long artistic research and forced oppression to maintain academic forms, competitions with rules, historical images, commissioned portraits that he hated, represents blossoming later the true movement of Italian Impressionism, which many of his friends, painting companions, students will follow, and will continue to do so for generations after his death. A movement that Filippini himself did not want to be organized, as for the Scapigliati, but felt, and experienced in the open air.