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Meadows and a Farmhouse

  • oil paint, canvas
  • 81 x 90.2 cm
  • Inv. 1985-J

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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 RKD VIAF Wikidata
Ghent 1877 - Deurle (Sint-Martens-Latem) 1943
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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
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IIIF Manifest https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/3377/manifest.json
Art & Architecture Thesaurus 25H landscapes Iconclass
Keywords Iconclass 24F firmament, sky Iconclass
25F animals Iconclass
25F2 mammals Iconclass
25H landscapes Iconclass
25H1 landscapes in the temperate zone Iconclass
25H17 meadow, pasture Iconclass
25I3 farm or solitary house in landscape Iconclass
26A clouds Iconclass
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) AAT
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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