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In this painting, abstract shapes and bright colors give the impression of two tall people standing outdoors. The people are in formal attire, depicted with vibrant colors and simplified forms: a man on the right has a square head with dark orange skin and no facial features. He appears to wear a black suit jacket over a white shirt with gray pants and a bowler hat. He stands next to another person on the left who appears to be a woman with dark red skin and no facial features wearing a blue coat over a white dress, with something on her head that may be a dark, wide-brimmed hat. The woman…

People by the Blue Lake

August Macke (German, 1887 - 1914)

1913 · oil on canvas

National Gallery of Art · Collection of Arnold and Joan Saltzman

Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0)

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