Theodoros Markellos — Greek painter, landscapes and seascapes
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Field with Cows — 35.00 × 50.00 cm — Theodoros Markellos
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Field with Cows

M1059


Artist
Theodoros Markellos (1925–2015)
Medium
Oil on Canvas
Dimensions
35.00 × 50.00 cm
Category
Landscape
Signed
Lower right

About This Work

A small herd rests low in the composition, the overcast sky claiming far more of the canvas than the earth below.

A deep patience rests over this field. You can follow the gentle furrows in the earth as they lead you toward the small herd. The horizon is low, giving so much space to that soft, overcast sky. All the colors are calm—earth tones carry the pasture through muted greens and browns, while the light above shifts through soft greys and a touch of cream. The brushwork has its own rhythm, moving through the grass and finding a rougher texture on the hides of the animals. Light falls so evenly, diffused, leaving only shallow shadows beneath them. A quiet settles over the land, slow and patient, the kind of hour that asks nothing of you.