THE ARTS VOL 2

ISBN: 9780365454960 Géneros: WFA Sinópsis: Excerpt from The Arts Vol 2 Reviewing November 1921The picture is a happy union of two sometimes antagonistic elements decoration and realism The upper half is almost pure realism the grove of stately palms their leaves touched by the declining sun against a background of pinkylavender hills and tropic sky In the lower half on the other hand two strange and solemn figures sit in shadow before translucent water in whose depths are reflected exotic farms and colors Sweeping roots of the burao tree twine across the foreground and circle around the pool of purplish blue Color as ever in Gauguin exercises its hypnotic power and casts a spell upon the observer strange pinks and lavenders greens and acrid yellows uniting in a whole of potent charmAbout the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books Find more at wwwforgottenbookscomThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work Forgotten Books uses stateoftheart technology to digitally reconstruct the work preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy In rare cases an imperfection in the original such as a blemish or missing page may be replicated in our edition We do however repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works