Artur Rivers - Landscape

Landscape has always been a central theme in artistic research, both as a setting, as a backdrop, and as a subject itself. The naturalistic depiction of landscape has been an artist's aspiration throughout the centuries. Each historical period has offered its own interpretation of landscape, contributing to the evolution of its depiction: first with an exploration of space, through Brunelleschi's perspective in the early Renaissance, then with atmospheric rendering in the sixteenth century, up until the depiction of every single vibration of light on objects in Impressionism.

In this painting, the English painter Arthur Rivers departs from the classical serenity of his more familiar landscapes to offer us a highly interesting work in terms of pictorial research. Indeed, in this painting, the artist displays a strongly Post-Impressionist interpretation, in which the subject is constructed entirely through color, using a language that transcends phenomenological reality while also taking into account the emotionality of the image. In this regard, we can note how the artist gives form to his subjects through extremely rapid and concise brushstrokes. The painter proceeds with a few touches of dense, textured color to delineate a nature charged with a tormented spirituality. The process of reducing reality to predominantly subjective and emotional forms brings this landscape very close to Expressionism.

Arthur Rivers is an artist about whom little biographical information is available. Of English origin, his painting career focused primarily on landscapes conceived in a classical and traditionalist spirit.

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