This landscape is a good example of the evolution of Gustave De Smet’s style in the 1930s. It has a robust composition with large areas of colour and is built up using lines rising vertically and at an angle, but at the same time it has a dynamism reminiscent of his Dutch period during the First World War. The restless atmosphere of the work is due to the lively and almost impulsive brushwork, the dark colours and the flickering white in the clouded sky.
| Artist |
Gustave De Smet
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| Title | Meadows and a Farmhouse |
| Period | 20th century |
| Signatures, inscriptions, and markings | signatures (names) bottom right: Gust. De Smet |
| Collection | paintings AAT |
| Object type | oil paintings (visual works) AAT |
| Inventory number | 1985-J |
| Acquisition credit |
gift
Smessaert, André (coll.) New Jersey 1985 |
| Permalink | https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/1985-J |
| IIIF Manifest | https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/3377/manifest.json |
| Art & Architecture Thesaurus | 300015636 landscapes AAT |
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| Keywords Iconclass |
24F
firmament, sky
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25F animals Iconclass 25F2 mammals Iconclass 25H1 landscapes in the temperate zone Iconclass 25H17 meadow, pasture Iconclass 25I3 farm or solitary house in landscape Iconclass 26A clouds Iconclass 300015636 landscapes AAT 41A17 farm (building) Iconclass 46A222 rural life Iconclass 47I111 cereal, grain, corn (grass with grains, grown for food, e.g.: wheat, rice, rye, oats, maize, buckwheat, millet) Iconclass 47I2112 cow Iconclass |
| School / Style |
Expressionist (style)
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Modernist AAT |
| Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent : Catalogus schilderkunst ; Deel I: 14de - 18de eeuw ; Deel II: 19de - 20ste eeuw / Robert Hoozee, Johan De Smet, Bruno Fornari, Ruth Monteyne. - Gent : Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent, 2007 (dl. II, p. 305 (ill.)) |
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