The Canal, Brittany Landscape (1909)
Roger de La Fresnaye1909 · Landscape · Public domain
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Provenance and rights
- Rights
- Public domain (artist died 1925)
Specifications
- Year
- 1909
- Nationality / school
- French
- Lifespan
- 1885–1925
About the artwork
"The Canal, Brittany Landscape" (1909) is a work by Roger de La Fresnaye. Historical background, 1909: Dada and Surrealism followed the First World War, the Bauhaus school was founded in 1919, and Art Deco became the fashionable decorative style of the 1920s and 1930s. The first decades of the twentieth century were a period of rapid experiment, with Fauvism, Expressionism, Cubism, Futurism, and the first abstract painting appearing within a few years of each other. Abstract in brief: Abstract art moves away from depicting recognisable objects and relies on colour, line, shape, and surface instead. Movements of later decades, including Abstract Expressionism and geometric abstraction, carried non-representational ideas into new scales and materials. The catalogue places it in Abstract. The format is landscape.
"The Canal, Brittany Landscape" is shown in the onlly.art catalogue for reference and browsing. A landscape format suits wide, low wall spaces such as the stretch above a bed, mantel, or sideboard. Browsing works by the same artist, or from the same period, is a good way to compare styles before choosing what suits your space.
About the artist
French, 1885–1925
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