Landweg met op de achtergrond een kerktoren 1865 - 1902

Emile de Baré created this landscape etching, titled 'Landweg met op de achtergrond een kerktoren', sometime between 1855 and 1902. The composition is dominated by a horizon line that divides the scene between earth and sky. Notice how the artist uses the etching technique to create a textured surface, employing a semiotic language of marks to articulate form and space. The receding road, with its visible tracks, creates a sense of depth and movement, pulling the viewer's eye towards the distant church tower, a potent symbol of stability, set against the transience of the sky. De Baré’s calculated arrangement of pictorial elements establishes a visual interplay between permanence and change, echoing existential themes through structural means. The etching destabilizes traditional landscape art, focusing instead on the interaction between constructed paths and natural expanse, thus questioning the relationship between humanity and its environment.