Ion Șinca · Exhibition 2007IS-0132
The Large Ravine
Râpa Mare
2007 · oil on canvas, 50 × 50 cm
A large ravine occupies the centre of the canvas, its wall broken into plates of cream white, ochre, brown and dark green cut by strong accents of brick red and blue; the paint is thick, knife-laid in broad slabs that follow the strata of the earth. At its foot a row of low houses with white walls and red roofs lines up, small against the mass of the ravine. The foreground is a flatly treated ochre-green meadow. The sky, almost half the surface, is pale blue with traces of white cloud. The relation of scale — the tiny houses beneath the wall of earth — is what gives the work its dimension.
Motifsravines & rockshouses & homesteads
- Where it is today
- 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
- 2007
How to cite
Ion Șinca, „The Large Ravine” (Râpa Mare), 2007. Ion Șinca Archive, IS-0132. https://ionsinca.ro/en/artwork/rapa-mare-2007/
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