Study for 'Swing Landscape'
American Modernism
1938
78.0 x 95.0 cm
Vividly colored, curved and straight-edged geometric shapes are piled and layered against a background of chalk white in this horizontal abstract composition. The paint is applied thickly with visible brush strokes. The shapes that fill the canvas are painted in flat areas of canary and buttercup yellow, cobalt blue, beet and brick red, pumpkin orange, kelly green, white, or black. Three vertical, cinnamon-brown bands are spaced along a sky-blue square, which nearly spans the left half of the composition. The tall brown forms can be read as masts while some of the other shapes can be the water, sails, rigging, anchors, and the forms of ships.
Stuart Davis (1892 – 1964)
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Dettagli sull'opera
- Titolo: Study for 'Swing Landscape'
- Artista: Stuart Davis
- Anno: 1938
- Dimensioni originali: 78.0 x 95.0 cm
- Stato del copyright: Protetti da copyright
- Periodo creativo: Mature Period
- Parole chiave: american modernism , swing landscape study , stuart davis painting
- Temi: dynamic composition , american art , urban scene