1929
oil
panel
From the collection of Museum of Fine Arts Boston
Dominant colour
Moon—Night Mood is a 1929 oil by Oscar Florianus Bluemner, held at Museum of Fine Arts Boston.
This painting shows a dark scene with a red rectangle in the middle. There's a white circle on the left side, and the background is mostly black. The colors are quite muted, with shades of blue and gray around the red rectangle. The overall mood of the painting seems quite somber. If you're interested in seeing more works that explore light and shadow, you might want to look into the technique of chiaroscuro.
Oscar Bluemner (June 21, 1867 – January 12, 1938), born Friedrich Julius Oskar Blümner and after 1933 known as Oscar Florianus Bluemner, was a Prussian-born American Modernist painter.
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