Landscape with character
Chaïm Soutine · 1918
Why it's great
A small figure stands in a swirling, wind-blown landscape, painted with thick, twisting strokes. Chaïm Soutine, a Jewish artist from a poor village in Belarus, used paint to express strong feelings instead of copying nature. His landscapes seem to move and twist like they are alive. He painted this in the south of France.
Where to see it
📍 Musée de l'OrangerieParis, France
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Chaïm Soutine was born into a poor Jewish family in a small village in what is now Belarus. He moved to Paris in 1913, where he lived and painted in a crowded artists' colony and became close friends with Modigliani. His wild, twisting paintings of waiters, pastry cooks and landscapes made him famous. He died in Paris in 1943, during the German occupation.
