Ravine
A composition with a large male profile, blue geometric shapes and a white hatched figure.

Ion Șinca · Other works · The Ion Creangă Studio049 / 219

Savonarola

1998 · tempera on paper · 15 × 19 cm

A figure composition worked in tempera on a violet-brick ground. At the right a large male profile — sloping forehead, frontally drawn eye, sharp nose — occupies the whole register, reduced to a few black lines and grey patches. At the left rises an elongated white figure built from parallel hatching, like a bandaged form. Between them an intense blue field is crossed by black horizontal bars, by two white clouds set down like objects, and by a black-and-white triangle descending at the centre. The touch is dry, applied in layers that let the ground show through; nothing is described realistically — the work functions as a sign rather than as a scene.

Colecția Florin Suțu · titlu alternativ (pe spate): „Compoziție 5”

Motifsfigures & portraits

Category · Studies & compositions

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