Seated Woman in an Interior (c. 1916)
Reijer Stolkc. 1916 · Portrait · Public domain
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Provenance and rights
- Rights
- Public domain (artist died 1945)
Specifications
- Year
- c. 1916
- Nationality / school
- Dutch
- Lifespan
- 1896–1945
About the artwork
Dated c. 1916, "Seated Woman in an Interior" is an artwork by Reijer Stolk. Context for c. 1916: 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. Posters, magazines, and illustrated books were major ways for the public to meet new art and design. Abstract in brief: Movements of later decades, including Abstract Expressionism and geometric abstraction, carried non-representational ideas into new scales and materials. It emerged in the early twentieth century, when several artists in Europe and Russia developed non-representational painting during the 1910s. The catalogue places it in Abstract. The format is portrait.
"Seated Woman in an Interior" is shown in the onlly.art catalogue for reference and browsing. A portrait format suits narrow wall spaces, hallways, and the area beside a door or window. Abstract compositions work through rhythm, colour, and form, which makes them especially effective in modern interiors and in spaces that need a strong visual accent without a literal narrative. 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
Dutch, 1896–1945
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