A powerful, evocative image with bold, gutsy, impasto paintwork.
This painting by George Bellows depicts a landscape and seascape with craggy rocks, clouds and a sailing boat at rest with lowered sails.
The paintwork is thick and visceral and directly applied, evoking an agitation of turmoil and potential danger. Dynamic, bold shapes, light and dark with colour contrasts, jarring colour combinations of green and blue, and the foreground deep red with the rapidly applied dabs of white.
The boat seems small and vulnerable to the elements, but their passing will return peace and calm. The lighter blue in the top band suggests a short, passing storm.
Unlike other American artists painting in Paris, Bellows never worked in Europe. His art remained quintessentially American powerful, and gritty. His brand of toxic masculinity lacks some of the refinements of French and European art.
“Giant Sky”, (Matthew’s Island), 1913
George Bellows (American,1882-1925)
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