Ion Șinca · Exhibition 2007IS-0122

Winter Phantasm 1

Fantasma iernii 1

2007 · oil on canvas, 73 × 60 cm

A winter landscape reduced to essentials: a long low mound rises on the horizon line, built from plates of grey, white, olive green, blue and brick-red accents laid with the knife like overlapping slabs. Around it the snow spreads in white and cream, in broad horizontal strokes with a few rounded forms marking covered boulders. The sky fills more than half the canvas as an almost uniform grey-violet surface with barely visible traces of cloud. The absence of any scale reference — house, figure, tree — is what turns the motif into a "phantasm".

Motifswaterravines & rockswinter & snowphantasms

Category · Landscapes

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Not documentedThe work is documented — photograph, catalogue, exhibition — but the archive does not record where it is now. That does not mean lost; it means unrecorded.

Exhibited

2007

Related works

The phantasms of the seasons — four works that close a year, painted six years apart from one another.

• Spring Phantasm · 2013
• Summer Phantasm · 2007
• Autumn Phantasm · 2013

See the whole group, to scale →

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Ion Șinca, „Winter Phantasm 1” (Fantasma iernii 1), 2007. Ion Șinca Archive, IS-0122. https://ionsinca.ro/en/artwork/fantasma-iernii-1-2007/

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