Giovanni Segantini / Pine Tree / c. 1897

Giovanni Segantini
Pine Tree
c. 1897
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Creator Name: Segantini, Giovanni
Creator Nationality: European; Southern European; Italian
Creator Role: Artist
Creator Dates/Places: 1858 - 1899
Gender: M
Creator Name-CRT: Giovanni Segantini
Title: Pine Tree
Title Type: Primary
Title: Pianta di Zembro
Title Type: Foreign
Title: Stone Pine and Alpine Roses
Title Type: Former
Title: Zirbelkiefer mit Alpenrosen
View: Full View
Creation Start Date: 1895
Creation End Date: 1899
Creation Date: c. 1897
Object Type: Paintings
Materials and Techniques: oil on canvas
Dimensions: Unframed: 135.2cm x 72cm
AMICA Contributor: The Cleveland Museum of Art
Owner Location: Cleveland, Ohio, USA
ID Number: 1982.124
Credit Line: Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund
Rights: http://www.clemusart.com/museum/disclaim2.html
Context: Segantini painted this picture in Maloja in the Swiss Alps, where he lived from 1886 to 1899. The composition is a study for an unrealized painting of Adam and Eve in the Terrestrial Paradise. Segantini's distinctive technique is characterized by brilliant colors applied in small strokes to create an unusually vibrant surface. Segantini may have intended the bent, twisted tree that struggles for survival against alpine storms as a metaphor for human perseverance. As the artist wrote, "The alpine roses speak of eternal love, eternal hope is the answer of the evergreen pine trees. . . . Living water splashes from the living rock, both symbols of eternity." Born in Italy, Segantini spent most of his life associating with Symbolist artists and writers in Switzerland.
AMICA ID: CMA_.1982.124
AMICA Library Year: 1998
Media Metadata Rights: Copyright, The Cleveland Museum of Art

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