Ion Șinca · The 2016 exhibition · The 2024 exhibition048 / 219
Ravine
Râpă
1998 · oil on canvas · 54 × 81 cm
A ravine seen from above and close to: the banks fill almost the whole canvas, opening into white, grey-violet and reddish-brown crests, with lit faces and dark hollows descending to the right. The paint is thick, knife-laid in broad slabs, so that real light catches in the relief of the material. Beyond the lip of the ravine a strip of raw green plateau appears and a line of brown-violet hills, while the sky is a pale grey-white band with a single cloud. The contrast between the almost blinding white of the bank and the cool green of the plateau supplies the whole tension of the picture.
Motifswaterravines & rocks
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