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Study for 'Swing Landscape'

Vividly colored, curved and straight-edged geometric shapes are piled and layered against a background of chalk white in this horizontal abstract composition. The paint is applied thickly with visible brush strokes. The shapes that fill the canvas are painted in flat areas of canary and buttercup yellow, cobalt blue, beet and brick red, pumpkin orange, kelly green, white, or black. Three vertical, cinnamon-brown bands are spaced along a sky-blue square, which nearly spans the left half of the composition. The tall brown forms can be read as masts while some of the other shapes can be the water, sails, rigging, anchors, and the forms of ships.

Questions & Answers

What is the format of "Study for 'Swing Landscape'"?

"Study for 'Swing Landscape'" by Stuart Davis has a landscape format. The format describes the proportions of the composition.

What stage of Stuart Davis's development does "Study for 'Swing Landscape'" represent?

"Study for 'Swing Landscape'" belongs to the Mature Period of Stuart Davis's career. This classification relates the work to the artist's development.

How does the subject of "Study for 'Swing Landscape'" relate to Stuart Davis's usual themes?

"Study for 'Swing Landscape'" depicts abstract landscape, geometric shapes, color field, urban scene, coastal motif, american art, modernism, dynamic composition, while Stuart Davis's recorded themes are harbor scenes series, jazz-influenced motifs, political engagement, cubism & fauvism, jazz-inspired forms, henri's ashcan school, urban dynamism, industrial society. Comparing the two shows how the work relates to the artist's usual subjects.

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Stuart Davis (1892 – 1964)

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