The Tree

Jehangir Sabavala paints a lonely and powerful portrait of nature in this work. Working primarily with landscape, Sabavala often includes hauntingly small figures and emblems of civilization amidst vast expanses of land, sea and sky. His work discusses the relationship between man and the natural world often ceding power to a beautiful and turbulent version of the latter. Combining elements of Romanticism, as seen in the paintings of Caspar David Friedrich and Joseph Mallard Willam Turner, and his unique Cubist style, Sabavala's work seamlessly merges form and content to successfully convey the majesty and the violence inherent in nature.