Devolution
By Paul D Robertson.
Pastels, 85 x 55cms.
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This piece is more simple and provides the first example of the stark orange versus blue that I find the most harmonious and powerful. It also began my slow realisation that when done with a little control, the sky in a landscape could take on almost any form.
I learned this from Turner, probably my greatest influence in landscape work.
His freedom of style is still something I aspire to(though I do not intend to tie myself to the mast of a ship in the midst of a storm to aquire a better understanding of natural spectalce as he reputedly did.)
I
find his work far more satisfying and visionary than any of the impressionists
to follow. I am aware that the impressionists themselves were influenced
by his work but believe they failed to succeed in their emulations years
after his work was produced.