WH Watkins - Untitled

The painting can be defined as a genre scene, that is, the depiction of an episode of everyday life that, apparently, lacks any significant element. These types of domestic subjects were long considered minor and only began to spread in Western art starting in the 17th century. Only with the development of 19th-century realism did everyday subjects become considered as important as historical or religious ones. In this work, the artist Watkins pays homage to the typical 18th-century genre scene but offers a more modern pictorial interpretation.

Despite its very traditional subject matter, the work presents an extremely elaborate language. Indeed, the representation is constructed entirely through a pronounced synthesis of objects, achieved through the application of color. The hatching is composed of dense brushstrokes. Everything unfolds in a flat, two-dimensional space, where depth is suggested by the passages of color. Within this environment, the brushstrokes attempt to arrange themselves plane upon plane, in a pictorial manner that characterizes the work with both great freshness of execution and great expressiveness. The balance of the colors is also highly refined.

As we can see from the analysis of this work, the artist WH Watkins stands out for his research that takes inspiration from classical and traditional subjects, but reworks them in a synthetic and expressive pictorial language based on colour.

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