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A weblike network of tree branches reveals a distant glimpse of a deteriorating medieval castle. The free yet carefully nuanced quality of the brushwork exemplifies Piet Mondrian’s early dedication to oil sketches made in nature and his interest in capturing the changing quality of light and atmosphere at different times of the day and year. Although the artist was still using a broken, almost pointillist touch at this point in his career, the fragmenting of the landscape forms in this work suggests a movement toward the Cubist vocabulary that would dominate his work in the coming years.
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Nicole Myers, DMA label copy, 2018.
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Created c. late 1909-early 1910
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Depicted location: Santpoort-Zuid (inhabited place/Netherlands): TGN: 7269203
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- Philadelphia Museum of Art~View a 17th-century painting by Jacob Isaacksz van Ruisdael that depicts the same castle seen in this Mondrian painting, the Castle of Brederode.
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General Description
A weblike network of tree branches reveals a distant glimpse of a deteriorating medieval castle. The free yet carefully nuanced quality of the brushwork exemplifies Piet Mondrian’s early dedication to oil sketches made in nature and his interest in capturing the changing quality of light and atmosphere at different times of the day and year. Although the artist was still using a broken, almost pointillist touch at this point in his career, the fragmenting of the landscape forms in this work suggests a movement toward the Cubist vocabulary that would dominate his work in the coming years.
Excerpt from
Nicole Myers, DMA label copy, 2018.
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- Philadelphia Museum of Art~View a 17th-century painting by Jacob Isaacksz van Ruisdael that depicts the same castle seen in this Mondrian painting, the Castle of Brederode.
Notes
Created c. late 1909-early 1910
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Artist/designers
Cultures
Geography
Depicted location: Santpoort-Zuid (inhabited place/Netherlands): TGN: 7269203
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Oil on Masonite
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