View from the Top
- Date:
- 2021
- Medium:
- Multi-Plate Reductive Linocut Relief Print
- Image courtesy of
- Artsy
Description
A large tree in dark silhouette dominates the right side of the composition, its gnarled branches spreading against a pale sky layered with soft grey-blue clouds; two birds perch among the uppermost branches. A pale orange-pink band of light glows along the horizon at lower left, above a distant range of hushed blue-green hills. "View from the Top," a 2021 multi-plate reductive linocut relief print by Monique Wales, renders the scene in flat, stacked tones of blue, grey, green, and peach.
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Frequently Asked Questions
View from the Top was created by Monique Wales in 2021.
View from the Top depicts landscapes.