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Landscape, 1932
Gillies, Sir William George, 1932, Oil painting
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Landscape, 1932
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20672
Title
Landscape, 1932
Description
A landscape painting of a Scottish countryside scene. Using dark tonal colours the artist has captured the intense drama of the autumnal season. Two small cottages are nestling amongst the rolling hills. Forests of green and golden-brown foliage cradle the landscape. In the background, fields of green and yellow meet with a dark tempestuous skyline.
Artist / maker
Gillies, Sir William George
Date
1932
Size
61.3 x 75.6 cm
Type
Oil painting
Location
City Art Centre
Accession number
CAC1983/26
This painting shows an affinity with the artist's native landscape, in his expressionist style of the 1930s. The Norwegian expressionist painter Edvard Munch had exhibited in Edinburgh in 1931. Gillies' was very struck by his work and according to Elder Dickson, his biographer, 'he was quite unprepared for this startling confrontation &. Everything he had seen before now seemed tame and spineless &. Here was painting which seemed to spring from the very roots of human passion and experience.'
Throughout much of the 1930's, Gillies wrestled with Munch's expressive style. His later work is nethertheless much more lyrical in tone, and painted in a less passionate manner. Here, Gillies' tries to work through the lessons of Munch, using dark tonal colour and a robust, expressive painting style.
By permission of the Royal Scottish Academy
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