Moose Family Entering a Clearing, Bruno Liljefors, 1930, Minneapolis Institute of Art: Paintingsthre
Moose Family Entering a Clearing, Bruno Liljefors, 1930, Minneapolis Institute of Art: Paintingsthree moose of varying sizes at left; Impressionistic landscape with grey-white sky; grey and green trees and golden-orange grass Bruno Liljefors was probably the most influential animal painter of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, at a time when wildlife art was still emerging from its association with scientific depiction and taxidermy. Liljefors’s lifelong activities as a hunter motivated his close study of animal life, and in his art he approached his subject not as a descriptive narrator, but as an ecologist, seeking to show animals in interaction with their environmental setting in the landscape. Moose Family Entering a Clearing is a strong example of Liljefors’s late work. Through its convincing sense of immediacy, shimmering light effects, and accurately rendered subjects, the painting demonstrates the fine line between impressionism and painterly realism.Size: 22 5/8 x 26 3/8 in. (57.47 x 66.99 cm) (sight) 33 x 37 5/8 in. (83.82 x 95.57 cm) (outer frame)Medium: Oil on canvashttps://collections.artsmia.org/art/108723/ -- source link
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