Landscape study from Oise

Wacław Zaboklicki was Wojciech Gerson’s disciple in 1897-1899 and studied in Munich and Paris. He travelled a lot, among others, to France in 1904-1912. The last year of his stay in France resulted in the painting Studium pejzażowe znad Oise [The Landscape Study from the Oise]. Like other works, it also shows the influence of Władysław Ślewiński, who also attended the Wojciech Gerson Drawing School in Warsaw. The landscape study was painted in a very simplified form, bearing testimony that it is not attempting at realistic representation that stand behind creative decisions, but the desire to show reality transformed by the artist's experience and vision, which operates with shape and colour. The view is taken from above, and it shows patches, sometimes forming geometric shapes in subdued colours dominated by browns, greens and greys. The buildings are irregular; in the upper part, one can see a movement of form. It is not a study attempting to create a realistic representation, but a desire to capture the painter's perception, influenced by his experience.

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