Ion Șinca · Exhibition 2002IS-0070

Phantasm of the crystal night

Fantasma nopții de cleștar

2002 · oil on canvas · 42 × 33 cm

The bank of a ravine occupies the whole middle of the canvas, broken into cream-white, blue and grey-violet plates laid over one another like scales; in the hollows the paint darkens to black. At left and right a few slender, almost leafless trunks mark the edges of the composition like bars. Behind, the ground rises in golden ochre and emerald towards a washed beige-blue sky. The foreground is a strip of bright red applied flat, describing nothing in particular but supporting the whole structure. The contrast of red, ochre and blue is pushed to the point where the landscape reads as a decorative surface.

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Category · Landscapes

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Exhibited

2002

Related works

From the Phantasms series — the 2002 exhibition at the Ploiești Art Gallery, where he showed more than twenty works under the same name.

• Phantasm 1 · 2002
• Phantasm 2 · 2002
• Phantasm 3 · 2002
• Phantasm 4 · 2002
• Phantasm at Cornu · 2002

and 9 more works in the group

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How to cite

Ion Șinca, „Phantasm of the crystal night” (Fantasma nopții de cleștar), 2002. Ion Șinca Archive, IS-0070. https://ionsinca.ro/en/artwork/fantasma-noptii-de-clestar-2002/

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