Career
At the national exhibition of 1887, Barison was influenced by two paintings, Neapolitan Michele Cammarano"s The Brawl (Louisiana Rissa), and Genoese Nicolò Barabino"s Quasi oliva speciosa. The latter has a fluid loose brushwork that is characteristic of his later years (demonstrated also by his self-portrait). In Trieste, he gained commissions for the panels for the Savings Bank of Trieste in 1912 depicting The Builders (which includes a self-portrait in flowing red robe) and The Merchants.
Subjects of his paintings in the early century include horses rendered with extreme care and precision in the painting Old Song (Municipality of Trieste).
The First World War exiled Barison to the house of Roberto Amadi in Pegli, Liguria where he stayed from 1915 to 1918, and continued painting landand sea-scapes. After the war, he returned to Trieste, and along with contemporaries Guido Grimani and Ugo Flumiani, continued to paint such themes.
He often painted outdoors. In his last years Barison took on new influences, including that of Umberto Veruda.
He continued to paint for the first two decades of the nineteenth century, but by then his paintings still evoked the past century.
He died in Trieste on January 7, 1931.