A dense wood of silvery trunks with white branches crossing against a dark blue ground.

Ion Șinca · Exhibition 2015IS-0022

The Silver Forest

Pădurea de argint

1988 · oil on canvas · 64 × 54 cm

The canvas is filled entirely by a wood: dozens of vertical silvery-grey trunks line up across the whole width, while in the foreground a single thicker one opens into white branches that cross the picture like arms. The crowns above form a dense blue-black and green vault through which no sky is visible. The ground is a narrow brown-violet strip with almost no detail. The painting is made of parallel vertical strokes in thick paint — a texture that imitates bark and at the same time turns the wood into an almost decorative surface; the light seems to come from the whiteness of the trunks themselves rather than from outside.

Motifstrees

Category · Landscapes

Where it is today: „Ion Ionescu-Quintus” Prahova County Art Museum
Exhibited: 2015

How to cite

Ion Șinca, „The Silver Forest” (Pădurea de argint), 1988. Ion Șinca Archive, IS-0022. https://ionsinca.ro/en/artwork/padurea-de-argint-1988/

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