cottages at north truro edward hopper

cottages at north truro edward hopperCottages at North Truro, a painting by Edward Hopper, depicts a tranquil landscape of holiday homes in North Truro, Massachusetts. The painting features houses scattered across a grassy, gently rolling terrain. The colour palette is dominated by pastel tones, with hints of red, green and blue giving the work a soothing, sunny atmosphere. The shadows cast by the buildings and trees indicate a bright, natural light, typical of summer days. The

leaving an indelible legacy in the history of art

The yellow hues contrast with the dark

Kandinsky succeeds in bringing an abstract world to life by playing with the interactions between shapes

during which he concentrated on the representation of the Provençal landscape

such as mouldings and windows

These structures are deconstructed and recomposed into a mosaic of facets in various hues

The following year he made this painting from a drawing that is also in the collection of the Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum

accentuating the lines and angles of the buildings

The artist was staying near Lake Annecy in Haute-Savoie

give the feeling of a certain benevolence

These swans

and lines that seem to float in an undefined space