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Samuel Mützner is associated with the development of native impressionism, alongside Jean Al. Steriadi, Nicolae Dărăscu or Lucian Grigorescu, where he focused on deciphering the pictorial rules that make up the relationships between light and color, in the eternally changing harmonies that nature offers. His vision was that of a contemplator of the reality around him and not of an imaginative one, and the essential merits of his creations consist in their descriptive qualities and a chosen coloristic sensitivity.
A distinctive note of his work is adherence to the impressionism movement, Mutzner managed to initiate himself in the specifics of this pictorial thinking in the very proximity of Claude Monet and by nature, where an essential rule of impressionism and artists was the development of studies in France, training in the artistic environment of Parisian workshops, and then outside, in nature.
In the Romanian space, impressionism will find its place especially among landscape painters, because in the specific technique of the genre they were able to adopt the essential rules, chromatic and luministic, with all the freedom imposed by their own sensitivity. Mutzner will be concerned to work as much as possible outdoors to capture colors, vegetation, touches, but also the most diverse effects of light and color, in different environments and atmospheres, at different times of the day and in certain seasons, proving a total adherence to the vision of his illustrious French predecessors, whose lesson he therefore assimilated in essence and not just in form.
Thus, his most important period, in the studies, will be that of the years 1908 -1910, where after several trips through the French province, he stops in the village of Giverny, in the charming natural ambiance, of the lily lake, poplars, or haystacks, a period characterized by strong clarification of the palette, opening towards light and using natural colors. A few works in this sense are: "Spring", "View from Giverny 1907", "Work in the vegetable garden 1925", "Trees in bloom" or "Forest in Brittany", where he emphasizes the observation and rendering of the natural landscape atmosphere, its various effects, chromatic and luminous, the diffuse forms, in a fluid mass of pastel shades, warm, wide and pleasant strokes, or from pale blue to pale yellow and to bright green.
With regard to the present work, the representation of the Giverny landscape which can also be placed in the period of 1908 and 1910, when he began to be attracted to paint such landscapes alongside Claude Monet, the center of interest is focused on this natural landscape from the Giverny garden, where within this, the presence of two characters, a woman and a child, can also be observed. The woman is in a long red dress, with a blue shirt and a yellow headscarf, who seems to be gathering vegetables, in a wicker basket, which she holds with both hands. Next to her is a child who is bent over in the garden and who is dressed in blue. Within the work, the colors blend with each other, from the wonderful blue sky with white cloud effects to the stretch of vegetation in the surroundings, the yellow of the haystacks or the light and dark shades of green nature, all perfectly make up this natural setting.
After this period, he will return to the country, where in 1923 he will begin to capture village life as the main theme of his work. His searches and studies carried him to numerous special places where he had the opportunity to develop, to enrich his knowledge and to expand the thematic area of his works.
oil on canvas, signed and dated lower right, in red, "S. Mützner, 1907"
Dating
1907
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Samuel Mützner is associated with the development of native impressionism, alongside Jean Al. Steriadi, Nicolae Dărăscu or Lucian Grigorescu, where he focused on deciphering the pictorial rules that make up the relationships between light and color, in the eternally changing harmonies that nature offers. His vision was that of a contemplator of the reality around him and not of an imaginative one, and the essential merits of his creations consist in their descriptive qualities and a chosen coloristic sensitivity.
A distinctive note of his work is adherence to the impressionism movement, Mutzner managed to initiate himself in the specifics of this pictorial thinking in the very proximity of Claude Monet and by nature, where an essential rule of impressionism and artists was the development of studies in France, training in the artistic environment of Parisian workshops, and then outside, in nature.
In the Romanian space, impressionism will find its place especially among landscape painters, because in the specific technique of the genre they were able to adopt the essential rules, chromatic and luministic, with all the freedom imposed by their own sensitivity. Mutzner will be concerned to work as much as possible outdoors to capture colors, vegetation, touches, but also the most diverse effects of light and color, in different environments and atmospheres, at different times of the day and in certain seasons, proving a total adherence to the vision of his illustrious French predecessors, whose lesson he therefore assimilated in essence and not just in form.
Thus, his most important period, in the studies, will be that of the years 1908 -1910, where after several trips through the French province, he stops in the village of Giverny, in the charming natural ambiance, of the lily lake, poplars, or haystacks, a period characterized by strong clarification of the palette, opening towards light and using natural colors. A few works in this sense are: "Spring", "View from Giverny 1907", "Work in the vegetable garden 1925", "Trees in bloom" or "Forest in Brittany", where he emphasizes the observation and rendering of the natural landscape atmosphere, its various effects, chromatic and luminous, the diffuse forms, in a fluid mass of pastel shades, warm, wide and pleasant strokes, or from pale blue to pale yellow and to bright green.
With regard to the present work, the representation of the Giverny landscape which can also be placed in the period of 1908 and 1910, when he began to be attracted to paint such landscapes alongside Claude Monet, the center of interest is focused on this natural landscape from the Giverny garden, where within this, the presence of two characters, a woman and a child, can also be observed. The woman is in a long red dress, with a blue shirt and a yellow headscarf, who seems to be gathering vegetables, in a wicker basket, which she holds with both hands. Next to her is a child who is bent over in the garden and who is dressed in blue. Within the work, the colors blend with each other, from the wonderful blue sky with white cloud effects to the stretch of vegetation in the surroundings, the yellow of the haystacks or the light and dark shades of green nature, all perfectly make up this natural setting.
After this period, he will return to the country, where in 1923 he will begin to capture village life as the main theme of his work. His searches and studies carried him to numerous special places where he had the opportunity to develop, to enrich his knowledge and to expand the thematic area of his works.
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