sailboats in antibes nicolas de stael

sailboats in antibes nicolas de staelIn Antibes, Nicolas de Stal found an environment conducive to an increasingly refined style of painting, focused on the sea and the horizon. In these late works, he moved away from any urban description to concentrate his attention on the essential lines of the maritime landscape. The sailboats are no longer treated as identifiable objects, but as vertical landmarks that help to organise the pictorial surface and the relationships between sky, water

the majestic ruins of the temple rise up

The title "Free" reflects Kandinsky's spontaneous and intuitive approach to the creation of this work

letters and words

Monet was especially interested in the work of reflections of the snow

poetic celebration of life

reveals an urban perspective

imbued with Chagall's own magic and emotion

with contours softened into subtle gradations

an emblematic figure of Fauvism

this is one of the artist's best-known works

the other carrying buckets

Painted around 1875