Dimensions: support: 650 x 810 x 19 mm frame: 743 x 904 x 70 mm
Copyright: CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED, Photo: Tate
Editor: Christopher Wood’s, A Fishing Boat in Dieppe Harbour, at the Tate. I'm struck by the subdued palette, how the greens and browns almost merge. What are your initial thoughts on the composition? Curator: Note how the artist uses line to create spatial recession, from the prominent boat to the distant buildings. Consider the interplay between the textures; the rough canvas, the depiction of water, the various surfaces of the buildings. How does this material dialogue impact your perception? Editor: It gives it a sort of flattened, dreamlike quality, I suppose. Curator: Precisely. The artist’s manipulation of form and texture create a distinct visual language. It’s a testament to the power of formal elements to evoke mood and meaning. Editor: It does change how I see the painting. Thanks!
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Wood travelled to the Normandy port of Dieppe with his friend Frosca Munster, describing it in a letter to his mother as ‘a very good painting place’. Dieppe attracted many artists to depict the town’s fishing fleets, including Walter Sickert and Georges Braque. In Wood’s picture, the influence of the naïve paintings of the St Ives artist Alfred Wallis (whom Wood met in 1928) may be observed in, for example, the scale of the boat in relation to the surrounding landscape and the receding line of houses on the shore. Gallery label, September 2016
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