In this work, Evard depicts a snow-covered landscape with purple Jura hills and pink shimmering snow. He employs a painting technique with deep art-historical roots in his representation of distance: aerial perspective (Verblauung). This technical term describes the effect where distant objects in a painting appear bluish to create a sense of spatial depth. Here, Evard acts abstractly, as he does not use the classic color blue for this purpose, but instead works within a violet color scale.
\nCreated in La Chaux-de-Fonds, the work reflects the transitional phase of his career between the Art Nouveau influence of his teacher Charles L\u2019Eplattenier (1874\u20131946) and the first hints of his later abstract visual language. The subtle choice of color and the rhythmic composition already point to Evard’s interest in color harmony and formal reduction. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Purple Mountains, 1917, oil on cardboard, 39 x 44 cm (framed), 20.5 x 20.5 cm (unframed)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3424,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-landscape"],"yoast_head":"\n