#48019 Albert Bloch

Description of Albrecht Bloch’s painting "Winter

The famous American artist Albert Bloch was a proponent of modernism in painting. And like other adherents of this direction in art, he strove to find and establish completely new, previously unseen areas of pictorial creativity. One of his most popular works is rightly recognized as the composition "Winter".

The combination of color solutions does not quite correspond to the snow-white winter usual to the eye, but this makes the work all the more interesting and mysterious. It draws the attention of the viewer, makes him look closely into the details, determine their meaning and purpose, to find more and more new symbolic moments.

There are all kinds of images and silhouettes on the canvas. At the very top you can see not quite normal snowman, and just below almost a fairy tale deer. There is a fox, a dog, a horse. And, of course, people. In places you can see leafless trees, they seem almost transparent.

The tones are dominated by red and yellow shades. But despite the fact that the artist’s preference is given to warm shades, the picture literally reeks of coolness and freshness. Perhaps this is achieved due to the unique, almost transparent technique of painting. In the upper part of the painting the scarlet shades are combined with dark blue. This symbolizes the dark and long winter nights. If you look closely, you can also see a countless number of stars in the winter sky.

The "Winter" canvas was a truly new solution in landscape painting. It combines a unique color scheme, and composition, and elaborate images.