The artwork titled “Morocco,” created by Nicholas Roerich in 1912, belongs to the Symbolism art movement and is a landscape genre painting.
The artwork presents a mesmerizing depiction of Morocco’s landscape with a rich interplay of warm and cool hues. The composition features undulating hills stained in an array of ochres and oranges, representing the arid terrain. A serene blue body of water nestles between these hills, adding a stark contrast to the dominant earth tones. Vegetation is sporadically dotted across the foreground, rendered in subtle green and blue shades. Above, the sky transitions from a peachy pink at the horizon to a darker lavender hue at the zenith, with a solitary cloud lingering. The overall atmosphere conveyed by the artwork is one of tranquility and mysticism, typical of Roerich’s symbolic approach to capturing landscapes.
