Farmhouse
Artist / maker
Constant Permeke (painters (artists))Date
ca. 1928Period
20th centuryCollection
Museum of Fine Arts Ghent
From the middle of the 1920s, Constant Permeke gradually abandoned the angular style that characterised his work of the early postwar years. In his numerous landscapes and seascapes especially, his style was direct and occasionally informal, as in The Farm. The paint is applied thickly, in coarse, wide brushstrokes. Permeke often limits himself to just a few colours. Here he…
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From the middle of the 1920s, Constant Permeke gradually abandoned the angular style that characterised his work of the early postwar years. In his numerous landscapes and seascapes especially, his style was direct and occasionally informal, as in The Farm. The paint is applied thickly, in coarse, wide brushstrokes. Permeke often limits himself to just a few colours. Here he uses mainly green and dark brown tones with an occasional white accent. The rural scene is dominated by the trees in the foreground which give the work a monumental character despite its small format.
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