Ion Șinca · Exhibition 2015IS-0007

The Red Ravine

Râpa Roșie

1980 · oil on canvas · 108 × 100 cm

A second, larger and far darker version of the same motif: the mass of the ravine occupies the centre as an almost uniform deep-red wall, above which rises a dark blue hill with a rounded crest under a pale ochre sky. Set into the red wall is a trapezoidal golden-yellow block, the only bright passage in the picture. The foreground is an almost black zone furrowed by a few brown verticals that run down like streams. What holds the composition is the contrast between the warm red, laid on thickly, and the matte black below; detail is sacrificed to mass.

Motifsravines & rockshills

Category · Landscapes

Where it is today

„Ion Ionescu-Quintus” Prahova County Art Museum

Exhibited

2015

Related works

Two large canvases from the same year on the same motif: the ravine as a dark mass, with almost no landscape around it. Both are in the museum.

• The Red Ravine · 1980

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How to cite

Ion Șinca, „The Red Ravine” (Râpa Roșie), 1980. Ion Șinca Archive, IS-0007. https://ionsinca.ro/en/artwork/rapa-rosie-1980-2/

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