Landscape with Poppies

Mediums: oil, canvas.
Location: The Museum of Modern Art, New York (the USA).

Briefly about the painting:

After moving from New York to Connecticut, Blume and his wife began growing vegetables; the artist created many landscapes and still-life paintings. The landscape attracts the viewer with its compositional structure and the author’s intention, which conveyed the contrast between the gray lifelessness of large stone boulders and fragile flowers. Poppies are stretching their petals up – they are too long and extremely thin stems are strong enough to show the world that spring has come. It seems that the trees, which have not yet released even buds, are stretching their branches towards three red flowers. The canvas confirms the universality of the art of Peter Blume – he conveys realistic scenes with the same force as avant-garde ones.