Andr\u00e9 Evard’s ‘Sea of Clouds’ (1948) depicts a highly reduced landscape in clear horizontal color fields. At the bottom lies an earthy strip of impasto reds, violets, and blues, whose glowing intensity forms an expressive contrast to the dominant light blue of the middle zone. Above it, a shimmering sea of clouds unfolds, bordered at the horizon by a sharply contoured mountain range in delicate red and violet accents, set against a bright yellow sky. The color field structure is reminiscent of Ferdinand Hodler’s zoned Alpine landscapes, the color intensity of the foreground recalls the Fauves, while the reduction to geometrically appearing surfaces shows connections to abstract landscape concepts of the 1940s. The red outlines act like a visual gateway that opens the view into infinity, lending the work a powerful, expressive tension in addition to meditative calm. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Sea of Clouds, 1948, oil on hardboard, 64x58cm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1929,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":3,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-landscape"],"yoast_head":"\n