Source work:
0930/88
J H Pierneef (1886-1957)
Untitled (Landscape)
1951
Oil on canvas
Out of Time: a Pierneef landscape revisited - Michelle Stewart
Michelle Stewart (b.1968)
Out of Time: a Pierneef landscape revisited
Printing ink on archival paper
R3 725
This work references an untitled Pierneef landscape of 1951. Untitled 1951 is typical of the artist. Pierneef favoured formalised, harmonious, dramatically lit and coloured landscapes with "little sign of human activity in his detached perspectives; the symbols of life in his silent, ordered world of nature are established in the stylized, isolated forms of trees and other verdure." (Everard Read)
Out of time: A Pierneef landscape revisited posits Untitled 1951 into three moments: an instance in the last decade of the nineteenth century, an instance in the middle of the twentieth century, and an instance in the first decade of the 21st century. The silhouette in the foreground is J.H. Pierneef.