A Swiss Modernist Painter

Brown Landscape, 1912, oil on cardboard, 34.6 x 34.6 cm

Brown Landscape, 1912

A vast hilly landscape in brown tones stretches from the bottom edge of the painting almost to the very top. The sky is granted only a narrow, light blue strip at the upper edge. Compositionally, Evard places a small white-flowering shrub in the center of the image. This is encircled by a ring of black birds. The artist creates an artificial boundary to the expansive landscape through light field paths that enclose the scene in the image’s center as if in a triangle. This effect is reinforced by sparse trees that draw the eye upwards, emphasizing both the sense of depth and the hill schemata.