This landscape painting demonstrates André Evard’s great admiration for Japanese art, especially for its well-known color woodcuts. This is particularly evident in Evard’s stylizing implementation of the red clouds in the upper center of the picture, which corresponds to the technique of that printmaking.
In addition, he modeled them, like the famous Japanese painter Katsushika Hokusai, with a black, strong outline and created a volume through the coloring. This stylistic device is not atypical for Evard. He used it again and again in his paintings.
The picture is determined in terms of area by the colors red and black, but through the clever use of light blue and yellow, the painter directs the viewer’s gaze specifically to the upper center of the picture.