RSA Scottish Art
A Shingly Shore
 | Artist: William McTaggart |
| Title: A Shingly Shore | |
| Year: 1904 | |
| Medium: oil on canvas | |
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| Suggested topic: natural environment | |
| Source: RSA | |
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| Description: William McTaggart's early career focused on portraits before moving on to scenes of everyday life which were painted in a very detailed and precise manner. This painting shows his increasing interest in maritime scenes in later life.A Shingly Shore captures a view across a bay towards the foaming waves in the distance. McTaggart loved to paint children fishing or scrambling among the rocks, often blending in with their environment, as if dissolving into the shingle. He wanted to make the children part of the landscape and to do this he had to suggest their presence with just a few strokes of the brush.The landscape is modelled in loose, broken brushwork with thick paint, which creates a sense of the movement and liveliness of the waves of the Atlantic Ocean and the sunshine upon the rocky shore. | |