Rabarbra

Description

Rabarbra asks to be met at close range. The canvas holds a modest, upright proportion, the kind of scale that keeps the giant leaves of the rhubarb plant close to their true size and draws the eye downward into the tangle of stems and shadow rather than out across a wide horizon. Standing before it, a viewer finds the composition working almost at the height of a garden bed, an intimacy that larger, panoramic Norwegian landscapes by the same hand rarely allow.

About Rabarbra Astrup Oil Painting Reproduction

The subject is unassuming: a stand of rhubarb, its broad leaves catching and losing light in quick succession, painted with the close attention Astrup gave to the plants and gardens around his home in western Norway. Thick, curling brushstrokes describe the leaves in a way that owes something to the decorative flattening of Post-Impressionist painting while still tracking the particular droop and twist of real foliage. Greens shift from acid to shadowed olive, interrupted by the paler undersides of leaves turned by wind, and the paint is handled with a density that suggests Astrup building form directly on the canvas rather than sketching it in beforehand.

This is characteristic of the artist in the period when he turned his printmaking eye toward everyday, unglamorous corners of the garden and farmyard, treating them with the same formal seriousness he gave to fjords and midsummer bonfires. The result has an odd, compressed energy, ornamental and observational at once, the leaves reading almost as pattern until a passage of light breaks the surface and returns it to something grown and specific.

The hand-painted reproduction

Recreating this as a hand-painted oil painting reproduction means matching that density stroke for stroke: the built-up ridges of pigment in the leaves, the shifts between opaque and thinly scraped colour, the exact register of green against the darker ground. A trained artist works from the original palette and brush logic rather than a flattened copy, so the rhubarb keeps its dimension and the canvas keeps a surface a print cannot offer. Each work is hand-painted by a professional artist, which is what allows the texture, not just the image, to survive the transfer from one canvas to another.

• Hand-painted reproduction in oil on artist-grade canvas
• Available in multiple sizes to suit your wall
• Arrives gallery-ready for immediate display
• Certificate of authenticity included with every order
• Free worldwide shipping, with no shipping charge to any country