Ion Șinca · Exhibition 2002IS-0088

Bank in Bloom

Mal înflorit

2002 · oil on canvas · 85 × 70 cm

An entire bank covered with blossom fills almost the whole surface: thousands of small patches of pink, carmine and white, applied one by one, rise in waves from the bottom edge to the upper right, letting dark blue and crimson shadows show between them. At the upper left a band of deep blue and a dark passage close the composition and set the measure of the contrast. There is no sky and no horizon — only the flowering mass and what carries it. The paint is thick, raised in relief on each petal; the work is closer to a colour field than to a described landscape.

Motifsflowerstrees in blossom

Category · Flowers & still lifes

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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

2002

Related works

The flowering bank, three times: twice in pink, in 2002, and once in yellow and much larger, in 2007.

• Bank in Bloom 2 · 2002
• Bank in Bloom 3 · 2007

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Ion Șinca, „Bank in Bloom” (Mal înflorit), 2002. Ion Șinca Archive, IS-0088. https://ionsinca.ro/en/artwork/mal-inflorit-2002/

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