Artist: Tom Roberts
Data: 1887
Dydis: 51 x 76 cm
Muziejus: National Gallery of Victoria (Melbourne, Australia)
technika: Oil On Canvas
This work was painted en plein air. Its realism is underpinned by a sophisticated composition of interlocking and overlaid triangles in the foreground and middleground, and by the well-considered central motif – a woman and boy and an eager dog meeting a boat as it draws in to the shore. The seated figure on the left is a classic device for closing a composition on the side and directing attention into the centre of the picture.The painting shows Roberts’s skill as a colourist. His palette is rich in earth colours, ranging from umbers through ochres to chalky whites. These colours are relieved by the delicate blues of the sky and sea, and by the vivid whites of the women’s and boy’s clothing, the boat and mooring posts, and the distant sail. Roberts draws the eye across the picture by his sparing use of black, for the sashes of the women’s dresses, the dog and the rim of the boat. Tiny accents of red, for the boy’s cap and on the woman’s bonnet, show another of the lessons he had learnt from the Old Masters.Text © National Gallery of Victoria, Australia
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