The artwork, titled “Arcades at L’Estaque,” was created by the artist Raoul Dufy in the year 1908. Falling under the Cubism art movement, this landscape painting exemplifies the era’s distinctive geometric approach to form and perspective.
In the artwork, Dufy employs a palette of earthy yellows, oranges, and greens to depict an arched architectural structure at L’Estaque. The scene is dominated by large, simplified shapes and soft, intermingling lines. The arches of the structure are presented in smooth, somewhat abstract forms, while the surrounding foliage is depicted through broad, curved brushstrokes. The painting captures the essence of the landscape through its geometric abstraction, lending it a unified and harmonious composition that is characteristic of the Cubist movement.
