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Arthur Dove
Landscape

1941

About the Item

This charming work on paper titled ‘Landscape’ (1941), created towards the end of Dove's life, is typical of his nature inspired extraction works. These works focused on Dove's emotive and passionate responses to nature. The piece is intimate in scale and draws the viewer into Dove's world. A world in which colours and form are felt intuitively. In a diary entry for August 5, 1942, Dove sets his intentions to depicting the “point where abstraction and reality meet”. The present work is a fascinating prelude to this proclamation. Here you can see the contrasting colours, blood reds and luscious greens dancing around the composition and bold nonrepresentational imagery. Subtle yellow ochres and sand tones form around the image, adding harmony and relaxing the eye. Areas of black punctuate and draw us in towards the centre of the image. Beneath these fields of colour on textured paper Dove's relaxed yet confident lines resonate. There is a delight in the puzzle of his process, in trying to understand the craftsmanship behind the extraction. The title, ‘Landscape‘, reveals to us that this work is intending to evoke the feeling and impact he felt when observing a scene within the natural world in all its splendour. This gravitation towards abstraction was a bold innovation and would later have an indirect influence on the first generation of Abstract Expressionists, such as Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko.
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