Year 1925 (1925) | Medium oil on canvas Created 1925 | |
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Dimensions 86 cm × 66 cm (34 in × 26 in) Similar The Reception of Lord B, Behold the Bridegroom Arriving, Concert of Angels, The Entombment of Christ | ||
The straw hat is an oil painting by Nikolaos Lytras created in 1925, and is considered as one of the most daring and impressive works of early Greek Modernism. It is exhibited at the National Gallery of Greece.
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Theme
The theme depicts a young girl with a straw hat in whitened yard island landscape in a hot summer day.
Analysis
It is characteristica of the work of Lystras, who was one of the patrons of the 1917 Art Group, influenced by expressionism but with less color intensity. The artist uses strong and vivid colors, all blue gray cold on the bottom, all orange-yellow warm at the top. This painting dominates the colors of the basic yellow with complementary purple paint the figure with wide free strokes of thick paint and gestural writing, emphasizing the material color nature.