Spencer Gore's 'The Icknield Way' is a landscape of supernatural clarity and condensation, bearing Cezanne's stylistic impression, inflected by the more expressive accents of van Gogh and Gauguin. Diamond-like simplifications of natural forms, especially visible in trees and clouds, unite the composition. The resulting dynamics are both agitated and stable. Gore strives to keep fragmentation at bay without loss of pictorial energy. He animates the work even further by exaggerating colour to a kaleidoscopic level. This is a deeply experienced topography rather than superficially perceived. It is the artist's masterpiece. Gore was one of the founders of the Camden Town Group, an alliance of younger artists around Walter Sickert.
The Icknield Way is an old track in the south and east of England that runs from Norfolk to Wiltshire. It follows the limestone slope that includes the Berkshire Downs and Chiltern Hills. It is generally said to be one of the oldest roads in Britain that can still be followed, as it was one of the few long-distance tracks that existed before the Romans occupied the country.
Spencer Frederick Gore (26 May 1878 - 27 March 1914) was a British landscape painter. He was the first president of the Camden Town Group and was influenced by the post-impressionists.
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