Ion Șinca · Exhibition 2015IS-0014

Landscape in the Doftana Valley

Peisaj la Valea Doftanei

1985 · oil on canvas · 73 × 65 cm

A high view over a valley: in the background a rounded blue-green massif rises almost to the top edge, with a dark crest and snow or rock suggested by vertical white strokes. Below it the slopes descend in steps of grey-green, pale ochre and white, cut by a few lighter rectangular plots like hayfields. The foreground is a run of yellow-green hill backs furrowed by long blue shadows. The picture is made of short strokes set side by side without blending, in dense paint; the light is diffuse, that of an overcast day, and space reads through the overlapping of planes rather than through linear perspective.

MotifsmountainhillsValea Doftanei

Category · Landscapes

Where it is today

„Ion Ionescu-Quintus” Prahova County Art Museum

Exhibited

2015

Related works

The Doftana valley, twenty-two years apart — the place returns in 1985, in 1991 and in 2007.

• The Doftana Valley · 1991
• The Doftana Valley 2 · 2007

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How to cite

Ion Șinca, „Landscape in the Doftana Valley” (Peisaj la Valea Doftanei), 1985. Ion Șinca Archive, IS-0014. https://ionsinca.ro/en/artwork/peisaj-la-valea-doftanei-1985/

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