Nightfall

Nightfall

men; boat; Superman; Noah; Satan; The Devil; Diablo; Ferdinand Magellan; river; explorer; superhero; Uruguay

Four men on a boat proceed along a body of muddy, green-blue water, with a dense forest of entangled tree branches forming the background against a soft blue sky. Superman paddles the boat forward from the back, the others in the boat being the Devil (depicted as a skinny red demon with horns and wings), Noah (of Ark fame) with two dogs, and Ferdinand Magellan (who "discovered" Uruguay, where Gamarra is from). The water has a complicated and simultaneously very lifelike and also distinctly dreamy quality to it, with Gamarra apparently having used some staccato-like painting techniques à l'impressionisme.

José Gamarra (1934-)

Born: 1934 (Montevideo, Uruguay)

11850, Visual Resources Library, MK

20th century

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Art Form: Painting
Material: oil on canvas

Contemporary