Ion Șinca · Exhibition 2015IS-0008

Steelworkers

Oțelari

1981 · oil on canvas · 103 × 104 cm

A heavy-set man fills almost the whole canvas, seen frontally, arms folded on a table, his gaze directed out of the picture. The head is built from broad grey and ochre facets with a strongly marked jaw, and the brown shirt is a single nearly flat surface from which the large hands emerge, drawn in geometric planes. Behind him a grey-green second plane is populated by worker silhouettes reduced to contours and hatching, like a bas-relief. The upper ground is a band of warm ochre, the only light area; the paint is matte and rubbed, and the signature appears at the lower right.

Motifsfigures & portraits

Category · Studies & compositions

Where it is today

„Ion Ionescu-Quintus” Prahova County Art Museum

Exhibited

2015

How to cite

Ion Șinca, „Steelworkers” (Oțelari), 1981. Ion Șinca Archive, IS-0008. https://ionsinca.ro/en/artwork/otelari-1981/

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