Description
In Apollo and Daphne, Nicolas Poussin builds a focused image around the subject identified by the work’s name. A considered distribution of form and space keeps the subject legible while inviting a slower reading of the complete image.
Color and light work with the underlying design, expressing Nicolas Poussin’s distinctive sense of pictorial order. This interplay of dominant shapes and restrained passages allows the image to remain clear without flattening its atmosphere. The result is an image whose mood and structure become richer as the viewer notices the connections between its larger and smaller passages.
A hand-painted oil reproduction carries these visual relationships into layered pigment and visible brushwork on canvas. The result combines the accessibility of a reproduction with the texture and individual character expected from a traditionally painted canvas.