Horace Pippin, 1940 - Christ and the Woman of Samaria - fine art print

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In 1940 Horace Pippin painted the piece of art. The over 80 years old original was made with the size: Overall: 19 3/4 x 24 1/4 in (50,2 x 61,6 cm) and was painted with the medium oil on canvas. Moveover, the piece of art can be viewed in in the Barnes Foundation's digital collection. The modern art public domain piece of art is provided with courtesy of Courtesy of the Barnes Foundation, Merion and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.The creditline of the artpiece is: . On top of that, alignment of the digital reproduction is landscape and has a side ratio of 1.2 : 1, which implies that the length is 20% longer than the width.

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The picture shocks by its drama, which is due primarily to Pippin's original use of color. The intense gradations of fuchsia and gray in the sky meet dramatically at the horizon with an intense purplish red against the green-blacks of the foliage. The placement of Christ's crisp, silhouetted purple cloak, firmly situated as if in a niche between the well and stones and the dark foliage behind, is a powerful color statement.Barnes believed that Pippin had been influenced by the composition of a painting formerly attributed to Tintoretto (Christ and the Woman of Samaria, BF823) of the same subject in the Foundation. The painting conceivably has another source rooted in African American experience, specifically, Pippin's deep religious faith. One of the fundamental aspects of Barnes's attraction to Pippin's work and his reference to its "counterparts in the Spirituals of the American Negro" was their shared love for the powerful emotions evoked by the simplicity, directness, and rhythms of that indigenous music. It is likely that Pippin, familiar with a wide repertoire of accompanied and a cappella songs, knew the traditional spiritual "Jesus Met the Woman at the Well". Richard J. Wattenmaker, American Paintings and Works on Paper in the Barnes Foundation (Merion, PA: The Barnes Foundation; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010), 307-9.