Ion Șinca · Exhibition 2015IS-0005
The Old Car
Mașina veche
1980 · tempera / canvas · 55 × 70 cm
An old motor car, seen almost frontally, is broken into overlapping planes: the body becomes a series of golden-ochre rectangles, the bonnet a brown band, the cabin a row of windows drawn like those of a house. Below, two spoked wheels are left in white and black outline, like an unfinished sketch. The ground is grey-white and almost empty, with thin strokes that build no space and let the object float on the surface. The painting alternates opaque knife-laid paint with thinned areas where the canvas shows — the car is dismantled and reassembled rather than described.
Motifsobjects & machines
- Where it is today
- „Ion Ionescu-Quintus” Prahova County Art Museum
- Exhibited
- 2015
How to cite
Ion Șinca, „The Old Car” (Mașina veche), 1980. Ion Șinca Archive, IS-0005. https://ionsinca.ro/en/artwork/masina-veche-1980/
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