The Lock
A mountain valley seen from above, with a blue-green massif behind and sunlit slopes in front.

Ion Șinca · The Ploiești Art Museum collection · The 2015 exhibition014 / 219

Landscape in the Doftana Valley

Peisaj la Valea Doftanei

1985 · oil on canvas · 65 × 73 cm

A high view over a valley: in the background a rounded blue-green massif rises almost to the top edge, with a dark crest and snow or rock suggested by vertical white strokes. Below it the slopes descend in steps of grey-green, pale ochre and white, cut by a few lighter rectangular plots like hayfields. The foreground is a run of yellow-green hill backs furrowed by long blue shadows. The picture is made of short strokes set side by side without blending, in dense paint; the light is diffuse, that of an overcast day, and space reads through the overlapping of planes rather than through linear perspective.

MotifsmountainhillsValea Doftanei

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