dance ii henri matisse 1

dance ii henri matisse 1During his stays in Italy, Nicolas de Stal became interested in the landscapes of the south, which he approached through an extreme simplification of forms. Agrigento offered him a motif based on the superimposition of hills and the clarity of the Mediterranean soil. He did not seek to represent a specific site, but rather to organise the surface of the painting using coloured planes, working on the relationship between the earth, the horizon and the

With Still Life with Fruit Bowl

strives to reveal the image of a world without objects

The figure is treated as an assembly of solid forms

while fluid brushstrokes evoke delicate

painted in 1866 by Gustave Courbet

watching colorful sailboats and rowers in deep blue water

This is the second painting in this series

which he regarded as the new subjects of painting

The figures are sketched in quick strokes

This colour recalls passion

dressed in vibrant hues

Delaunay uses various geometric shapes to represent elements of the landscape