"Mediterranean light" is the title of a lithograph by Robert Motherwell, an important painter for Piccinelli.
It is also a reference to his Italian origins (a well-known Renaissance painter by the name of Andrea Piccinelli) and to the colours of Matisse.
The geometric structures evoke the architecture so prevalent around the Mediterranean Sea, while the traces and their transparent textures evoke the aquatic element.
Unlike the American artists of his time, most of whom practised all-over painting, Motherwell incorporated emptiness as a structuring element in his compositions, as can be seen in the silkscreen print with added collage dated 1964 Untitled from X + X (Ten Works by Ten Painters), in which the space left blank becomes, by subtraction, the main figure of the work. For his Lyric Suite series begun in 1965, he still used ink on paper, but in a different way. (Orianne Castel: Art Critique)
