Year 1897 (1897) Artist L. A. Ring | Medium oil on canvas Created 1897 | |
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Dimensions 191 cm × 144 cm (75 in × 57 in) Location National Gallery of Denmark Similar L A Ring artwork, Other artwork | ||
In the garden door. The artist's wife is a painting painted by L. A. Ring in 1897. It is a portrait of his wife Sigrid Kähler (1874-1923), whom he had married in 1896. The painting is 191 × 144 cm and is owned by the National Gallery of Denmark.
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Description
Ring suggests the painting human frailty by equating Sigrid stomach with vegetation almost crippled stem and branch structure. It has been interpreted as the artist's "reminder of the fragility that also includes the emerging life as perceived by man and nature." The image contrasts between cold and warm colors contribute to the feeling of space. In the foreground to the left penetrates warm orange and yellow colors of the curtain and the dress on while the cooler green and blue colors are retracted the image's background.
Ring was when he painted the portrait, 42 years old while his wife was 22 years. Art Historians Against this background, interpreted the painting as a love letter to the pregnant wife, which positions the trip looking to the spring blooming flora, symbolizing love enforcement.
Ring was 42 years old, when he painted the portrait, while his wife was 22 years old. Against this background, art historians interprete the painting as a love letter to his pregnant wife, which positions the trip looking to the spring blooming flora, symbolizing love. For example, myrtle over her head is a symbol of Aphrodite in Greek mythology, and myrtle was traditionally used to decorate the bride at weddings in Denmark. It is assumed that the underlying gloom is a symbol of death as "being the underlying theme or rather the life experience that ring with his picture trying to handle and dispose of paint."
Style
L.A. Ring has been described as a pioneer of Danish symbolism, and his works have been described as an expression of social realism. In recent years it has been in the art historical research accepted that the two aspects of his work are equally important and complement each other. It has also been pointed out that "In the garden door" represents an alternative view of women to Romanticism idealized view of the female figure.
"The painting adds to a number of Danish artists monumental women's and wife's portraits from the decades around 1900. Images that on examination tell of a woman that is gradually released from the Romantic's body and intellectual mother worship towards a more independent and resting in herself woman type with both the body and brains."