Walter, an ex art history student, muses on the current, fluid state of Italian wine.
The natural wine debate has flared up again or, perhaps, it never went away. I was pondering this at the Centre Pompidou in Paris last June, while looking at Henri Matisse’s Luxe, Calme et Volupté, the neo-Impressionist painting from 1904, of which I took this picture. The short brush strokes with which the vibrant colours are applied to the canvas echoes the pointillism of Seurat’s Un Dimanche Après-midi à l’île de la Grande Jatte, painted 20 years earlier, but Matisse’s work is more radical...
Postmodern Italy – in search of genuine wine
