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Orchards

Livezi

1979 · 120 × 86 cm

An almost monochrome composition organised strictly in horizontal bands, like a relief. The middle band holds a row of trees: white crowns cut into polygonal shapes, beneath which trunks and branches descend in zigzags scratched straight into the still-wet paint. The upper band is a brown-grey field crossed by a continuous incised drawing of loops and letter-like forms; below, a tilted white plane closes the composition like a threshold. Colour is reduced to grey, lime white and brown, and the interest falls on the surface texture — thick matte paint worked with the tip of the brush handle.

A period black-and-white photograph

Motifstrees

Category · Studies & compositions

Where it is today

In the family's collection

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Ion Șinca, „Orchards” (Livezi), 1979. Ion Șinca Archive, IS-0004. https://ionsinca.ro/en/artwork/livezi-1979/

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