Meadows and a Farmhouse
Artist / maker
Gustave De Smet (painters (artists))Period
20th centuryCollection
Museum of Fine Arts Ghent
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…
Read more
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.
Read less
