

Curatorial Narrative Ernst Schiess’s “Grazing Sheep in front of Bare Hills” operates within the realm of modern landscape painting, yet its stylistic affinities with Impressionism are undeniable. The artist’s employment of impasto technique imbues the canvas with a textured quality that alludes to the physicality of the natural world. By applying paint in thick, buttery strokes, Schiess achieves an almost three-dimensional effect, underscoring the rugged topography of the landscape.In this work, Schiess’s palette is characterized by its subtlety and restraint, a blue sky providing a calm backdrop for the lush greens and browns of the grass and mountains. When enlarged to 64×44 inches, the spatial depth and chromatic structure of “Grazing Sheep in front of Bare Hills” assume a commanding presence within an interior environment. The atmospheric weight of the painting would be most effectively amplified by the strategic use of neutral-
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