Sebastian Smee writes in the Boston Globe that the current Per Kirkeby show in the Bowdoin College Museum of Art contains big paintings with “a restless, unsettling aura” and a “peculiar charge.”

“Kirkeby’s flickering color — one minute earthy and dun, the next bejeweled, opalescent — plays strange tricks, inducing second and third glances,” he writes.

Smee also commends the “good folk at Bowdoin” for setting up a simultaneous smaller exhibition about color and structure in the earth, organized by the college’s Earth and Oceanographic Sciences and Mathematics Department.

Painting shown: “Mordet I Finderup Lade (Regicide at Finderup Barn),” 1967, mixed media on Masonite, and, below, “Untitled (Horses),” 2009, tempera on canvas by Per Kirkeby.