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Label Text:
Mark Baum pursued figurative art until the 1960s. Although he attended art school, he was largely self-taught. This painting demonstrates the artist’s primitivist style and his independence from fashions. Its subject ties in with the nineteenth-century tradition of landscape painting, which, as Rolston Holmes III explains, “emphasized the patterned shapes made by the various items of a landscape, the spatial relationships, near and far, the relative intensity of differing elements in the scene.”

BJ, 2014

Tags:
domestic space; landscapes; rural; vegetation; trees; farms; houses

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