“Tarbagatai” is a Symbolist landscape painting by Nicholas Roerich, housed in the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, US.
The artwork depicts a vast, rolling landscape with a palette dominated by earthy browns and ochres, suggestive of an expansive, tranquil terrain. In the background, a formation of mountainous cliffs rises, their summits etched with hints of yellow, indicating the play of light on their rocky surfaces. The foreground is rendered with rich, diverse shades of brown, capturing the texture and undulating nature of the landscape. The horizon is a delicate, almost imperceptible transition between the earth and the pale sky above, reflecting Roerich’s mastery in evoking a serene yet profound natural scene. His employment of symbolic colors and minimalist composition imbues the painting with a sense of quiet majesty and timelessness, characteristic of the Symbolist movement.
