The artwork entitled “Karakoram. Way to Turkestan” was created by Nicholas Roerich in 1936. It is a landscape rendered with tempera on canvas and is categorized under the Symbolism art movement. The painting is currently housed in the Nicholas Roerich Museum located in New York City, NY, US.
The artwork is a distinct and evocative landscape capturing the majestic and rugged terrain of the Karakoram mountain range. Roerich employs a color palette dominated by shades of blue and purple to illustrate the mountains, complemented by the vast, barren foreground rendered in earthy browns and tans. The sky above is expansive, featuring a rich blue hue meeting a layer of voluminous and dramatic cloud formations. The stylistic approach imbues the scene with both a sense of vastness and a symbolic depth, characteristic of Roerich’s immersive and mystical representation of nature.
