“Autogeography” is an artwork created by Saul Steinberg in 1966, situated within the Expressionist art movement and categorized in the landscape genre.
The artwork presents a whimsical and imaginative landscape formed through a combination of text and imagery. The lower part of the artwork depicts an expansive, green terrain dotted with trees and labelled with various names, locations, and annotations, creating a complex web of interconnected places. A blue river meanders through the terrain, forming multiple water bodies and contributing to the organic flow of the landscape. The horizon is marked by a dark band of color, atop which the sky transitions into warm hues of pink, orange, and yellow, with a pair of stylized clouds near the center. This work creatively merges cartography with landscape painting, offering a unique and expressive visual narrative.
