Peter Doig

I chose the painting Red House by Peter Doig because I found it to be one of his better landscape  paintings. This image is uses colours which compliment  each other, red and white.  I like the painting because of the message that I gather from it.  I feel the image is all about the history of the house, the shadows of the people walking by have no significance in the painting to me.  The fact that the weather in the image is snowing  adds effect to the painting. If the weather was sunny and ground was covered in grass it would give off a different effect. Peter Doig has a variety of  landscape images which do have buildings in them. I feel the that the houses are done in the same style. The paintings cold winter nature gives  the red house a warmer feeling to it. The red house is being representing as warmth and the white snow being freezing cold. There is depth created  in the painting as the house is placed on hill and a path curving down with peoples shadows place around. The smaller the shadow the father it is.

The image was made in 1996. It is a oil painting. The painting is currently for sale . The estimated price- for it 1,3 million pounds. Peter Doig presented the art  to an auction with Charles Booth-Clibborn in 1997 .

Peter Doig has a very multicultural background living in three different major countries. He can paint landscape pictures in different sizes of depth, in different perspectives, with different colours which reveal different atmospheres. He sometimes paints his memories of snowy scenes of his childhood in Canada. His work has been said to contain ideas associated with the new epoch in art called 'Metamodernism’.