Magnus Enckell

• Magnus Enckell : Heräävä fauni, 1914, 65,5x81 cm, oil, canvas (A II 1029, Hoving) (50.3 kB)

Although Magnus Enckell, in keeping with his intellectual and pensive cast, launched thoroughly into the world of colour, he never became a pure Neo-Impressionist in the French spirit. In terms of colour and light theory his manner of painting adjacent patches of colour in parallel brushstrokes is nevertheless very close to Pointillism. But he never abandoned what was most distincly his own, his emphasis of line. In fact, during his colourist phase Enckell abandoned nothing that was particular to his art, in stead he added colour as a new and powerful ingredient. Enckell is one the few masters of the turn of the century whose colourist phase was artistically equal in strength to their previous work.

Magnus Enckell : Heräävä fauni