The critic and art historian Giorgio Nicodemi
writes (in his introduction to the monograph "Gino Sandri", 1965):
«Artists who take care to analyse
their sentiments, describe what stimulates them, what gives them ideas
for creating their works are very rare. All the efforts to uncover these
ideas got from reality or imagination should be considered as proof of
intention from which only possibility can be admitted».
«The best of the paintings that Sandri has left us are delicate countryside
scenes.
Colours that caress you and shapes that praise the various possibilities
of the Lombard lanscape painters give Sandri an unexpected impressionist
freshness. He brings back to life the lost fairy-tale world that we saw
floating in our countryside when bushes and trees grew luxuriant without
being tormented by the ever-encroaching nearby houses, when fields were
crossed by little canals and streams and the flight of birds echoed along
with their songs in the sky».
«Alongside the landscapes we must consider the many portraits of illustrious and humble people. They have a faint tinge of reality. They have not been forced but every face shows the depth of character and the spirit which come through clearly».
