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Acacias
Salcâmi
2011 · oil on canvas · 60 × 92 cm
A dense screen of acacias crosses the canvas horizontally, the crowns built from broad slabs of blue-grey, white, grey and reddish-brown accents applied with the knife and overlapping like scales; slender dark trunks descend between them to the ground. At the right two small white houses appear at the foot of the trees. The foreground is a bank of sharply cut white and grey slabs descending to the bottom edge. The sky is a warm golden-ochre surface applied thinly. The warm-cool contrast — blue crowns against a golden sky — is the principal device, and the foliage is entirely transformed into matter.
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