Sentences with phrase «depicting simple scenes»

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Through portraiture, landscapes and still lifes, Calderara depicted the people, scenes and objects of his native Italy — all suffused by a delicate, misty light inspired by the atmospheric glow of Lake Orta in Vacciago, where the artist moved in 1934 with his wife Carmela, and where he would work for most of his life.By the mid-1950s, Calderara began to move away from figurative painting to embrace a more geometric approach, radically reducing both the scale and the compositional elements of his paintings through use of simple forms and flat blocks of nebulous and subtle colour.

Rather than depict a scene's physical contours, he evokes the moment and mood of a place by controlling the light with the use of simple color filters.

The simple illustration depicts a seaside scene in a tranquil colour palette of pastels, perfect to compliment the greenery in the garden.