Ion Șinca · Exhibition 2002IS-0072

Phantasm over the water

Fantasmă peste apă

2002 · oil on canvas · 60 × 50 cm

A massive grey-white hill fills the upper half of the canvas, its brow covered with dense vegetation painted in blue-green, ochre and red accents. At its foot a few small houses with red roofs line up, and in front of them two slender trees with sparse crowns rise to the height of the hill. The lower half is a stony bank worked in pink-white and grey slabs, cut by a streak of water and by a thin extended line that reads as a cable or a footbridge. The paint is thick, with curved strokes in the vegetation and flat ones in the stone; the colour alternates the cool white of the hill with the warm patches of the roofs.

The family’s records list it untitled, as “Peisaj” — the same work, photographed a second time, cooler in colour

Motifswaterravines & rockshouses & homesteadshillsphantasms

Category · Landscapes

Where it is today

In the family's collection

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

See the whole group, to scale →

How to cite

Ion Șinca, „Phantasm over the water” (Fantasmă peste apă), 2002. Ion Șinca Archive, IS-0072. https://ionsinca.ro/en/artwork/fantasma-peste-apa-2002/

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