Arnout Colnot was a member of the 'Bergense school'. Colnot started out as an apprentice decoration painter and developed further. His works is characterized by coarse shapes, dark colors and influences from Cubism. Cubism uses shifting points of view. A table can be viewed from different angles. From above when standing, from the side when sitting, or from below when picking up something from the floor. Cubists try to incorporate this into a painting.
The expressionism of the Bergen School. In expressionism the artist tries to express his feelings, his experiences, for the observer by a certain distortion of reality. Arnout Colnot is seen as the most distinctive representative of the Bergen school due to his powerful, dark cubist expressionism.
Source: de rode Scheen, Lexicon of Dutch Visual Artists, 1750-1950 and De Bergense School en Piet Boendermaker, Piet Spijk, Waanders released in Zwolle.
The painting is very dark in color. But pay attention to the different colors that come to life with the sunlight in the painting, blue, red, yellow etc.
Size without frame: 58x72 cm.
Signed and dated bottom left, '24, Samois sur Seine (France).
