2007.76.1
(112.71 cm HIGH x 137.16 cm WIDE)
An oil painting on canvas includes a landscape composition with multiple rolling hills in shades of yellow and orange. Pine trees and small round shrubbery are painted thickly in shades of blue and green throughout. At the top of the canvas, vertical strokes indicate a distant line of trees against dark hills. White clouds are visible at the skyline on the right side of the canvas in an otherwise clear blue sky that gradually darkens toward the top edge. The surface of the canvas has a glossy finish.
"Sensual Landscapes" From the catalogue introduction written by Peter Frank, p.3. . . "In paintings such asï¾€the aptly named Joy, details of the landscape are not just stylized but transmuted, their colors heightenedï¾€their contours sculpted, as in the roller-coaster slopes that dominate Joy - and, for that matter in that painting's shrubs, each a Brussels-sprout-like bolus, and its trees, most notably the blue-green fir in the picture's middle, its foliage in a vigorous upsweep that reflects the painting's spirit of elation. Such landscapes are designed not only to provoke emotions but to embody them. ï¾€Joy is not just joyous, it is joy itself - Stuppin's joy, ours, the trees' and bushes'. The poetic troupe of attributing human emotions to nonhuman entities may be a corny concept but it works for Stuppin, much as it has worked for painters throughout the last hundred-plus years.". . .
