Description
Aaron Finks Out for a Walk (1983) depicts a monumental man wearing a hat and a raincoat. The artist has long admired the earlier 20th-century German Expressionist painter Max Beckmann. Out for a Walk pays homage to Beckmanns famous standing Self-Portrait in Tuxedo(in the collection of the Busch-Reisinger Museum at Harvard University). Rather than the debonair elegance of Beckmanns figure, however, Finks strolling man conveys a heavy, deliberate stride. Out for a Walk shows Finks love of the basic qualities of painting: brushwork, color, and texture. Horizontal and vertical brushstrokes are hastily applied throughout the canvas, suggesting motion blurred by heavy rain. Deep hues of blue, brown, gray, and black intensify the expressionist mood of the canvas.
Details
- Work Date:
- 1983
- Location:
- Room No. 1
- Dimensions:
- 108 in. x 72 in. (274.32 cm x 182.88 cm)
- Medium:
- Oil on canvas
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Joan and Roger (MIT Class of 1946) Sonnabend