Medium - Wood , Subject - Landscape , Style - Cubism , Artwork Type - Oil Painting
Krajina údolí s řekou (Valley Landscape with a River)
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Description
The painting is based on an imagined landscape whose shaping is influenced by memories of the Rhône valley around Montélimar. It is not a record of the place, but its inner trace. The landscape is broken into cubist planes that assemble space according to memory rather than reality. Mountains, a reservoir and a hint of human presence function as signs, not as description. The water surface partly reflects and partly blurs a portion of the painting, much like a memory that is never whole. The cubist approach here serves as a means of captur
