Vibrant landscape painting entitled Above the Gravel Pit by Canadian artist Emily Carr
Lawren Harris wrote to Carr in 1929, advising her to leave “the totems alone for a year or more” and pursue instead “the tremendous elusive what lies behind.” In the 1930s Carr focused her attention on the landscape surrounding her Victoria home and developed a new gestural language to represent it. Above the Gravel Pit shows her also turning her gaze skyward. In her journal Carr describes this painting as “a skyscape with roots and gravel pits. I am striving for a wide, open sky with lots of movement, which is taken down into dried greens in the foreground and connected by roots and stumps to sky. My desire is to have it free and jubilant, not crucified into one spot, static. The colour of the brilliantly lighted sky will contrast with the black, white and tawny earth" Lisa Baldissera
Size: 6598px × 4960px
Location: Victoria, Canada.
Photo credit: © steeve-x-art / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No
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