The Painting was made by Max Ernst in 1940. Max Erns, was the inventor of the
technique called frottage. I characterized this painting to be very expressive.
The painting illustrate the consequences of a storm and the effects it has in
our nature. It is a representation of Europe after a day of a storm.
Ernst used a special Technique called Frottage, with this technique he was
able to create a numerous variety of textural effects. Ernst’s technique
consists of putting a piece of paper over a texture surface like floorboards and
wooden surfaces, and then rubbing a soft pencil across the paper. He would then
arrange these textures in visions of surrealistic forests and beautiful
landscape.
The painting was made of oil on canvas. H 21 9/16in. W.58 3/16in. It posses
an analogous color scheme, made up of blue, yellow, white, black and green. The
painting is a study in athmosphetic perspective, the sky appears white and blue,
and mountains appear black and yellow. The black and yellow color gives the
mountains a hot dry look and the white and blue color shows how hot the
atmosphere is.
The appearance of both warm color (yellow) and cool color (blue) tend to
evoke a Sense of contrast tension when they both appear to be together on the
same painting. In conclusion the painting impact me for it visual texture. Its
view of a real storm, each color on it, reflects the causes of a real storm and
the way the artist develops it.
