black with a mount · The pisé walls · Manner of c. 1890
The Ramparts at Noon
In the manner of Orientalist landscape · Manner of c. 1890 · The pisé walls
- Giclée on 200gsm archival matte, pigment inks
- Printed to order in Europe and posted to you
- Framing is optional, and framed prints arrive ready to hang
About this piece
Nineteen kilometres of rammed earth, raised in the 1120s and repaired every generation since with the same red mud. At noon there is no modelling at all: one flat plane of ochre, a hard black line of shadow at its foot, a bleached sky. It is a harder subject than it looks, because there is nothing to hide behind.
Rammed earth, hard shadow, white sky
Public domain
The painters this manner comes from died more than seventy years ago, so their work belongs to everybody now. This is our painting, made in their manner, not a copy of any canvas of theirs.
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