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A lock seen from above, with red and grey rectangular basins, slender poplars and a yellow sky.

Ion Șinca · Exhibition 2016IS-0012

The Lock

Ecluza

1984 · oil on canvas · 83 × 72 cm

An industrial landscape seen from above and laid out almost like a plan: at the centre a large surface is divided into red, grey and brown rectangular basins bounded by ruled black lines. Two vertical posts cross it, and in front a row of slender dark poplars stands along a blue-grey stretch of water. In the lower foreground a second red basin, drawn in perspective, runs out of the frame; above, beyond an ochre dyke, the sky is a band of apricot yellow with a violet patch. The colour is applied in thin matte layers, and the strict geometry of the basins contrasts with the free brushwork of sky and water.

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Category · Studies & compositions

Where it is today
The Badea Cârțan collection
Exhibited
2016
How to cite

Ion Șinca, „The Lock” (Ecluza), 1984. Ion Șinca Archive, IS-0012. https://ionsinca.ro/en/artwork/ecluza-1984/

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