Rockwell Kent

 

Rockwell Kent was an American painter born in the late 1800s in New York State. His pictorial vocation and his adventurous spirit, however, led him from a very young age to undertake long and tiring journeys in the coldest areas of the Earth: Alaska, Greenland and Tierra del Fuego. The resulting landscapes seem to come from another planet, places that were little explored at the time and above all little visited; thanks to Kent they fascinated the critics and the public of the time.

The acid colors reflect the very bright tones of those cold and desolate landscapes. Nature is the real protagonist in these scenes, able to lead us into a silence of religious admiration. Looking at the skies of Kent, one realizes how his style may have been influenced by other great artists of the 19th century such as John Constable and David Friedrich, both very passionate about the theme of the landscape albeit interpreted in a very different key.