Artworks
Sem título [Untitled]
painting


Date
1970
Technique
Acrylic on plywood
Dimensions
100 x 80 cm
Quite a sunny painting with all its yellows, ochres and luminous greens intersected by occasional browns, this composition, built as a succession of overlapping canvases, opens a succession of windows over continuous glances of landscapes, with elements that seem to move from plan to plan.
Working as a labyrinth of senses or of narratives, subjects follow one another like doors that open on other doors, showing new details and meaning. Body parts, geometric shapes, smooth backgrounds and stormy skies cross the different levels of the composition, suggesting an increasing interest on fragment consistent with the - air du temps
. Colours and shapes create a duplicity of effects, as if seeking to simultaneously evoke and deny the three-dimensionality of the surface.
Maintaining all the familiar elements of the painter, from the mentioned bodies elements to the suggestions of almost lunar landscapes, with the disturbing smoothness of their backgrounds, this painting adopts a clear modernity in its use of fragment. Connecting the surrealist universe to broader questions of perception using both colour and contour line, chromatic surfaces mix smooth areas with others where colours blend and model the surface, providing an illusion of volume. Experimenting with abstraction, this composition also provides an opportunity for Cruzeiro Seixas to blend painting with drawing — an everlasting passion that we find here in the clear contour of some colour shapes.
Apart from his usual disquieting metamorphoses of dreamlike inspiration, we also find here a balance between the geometry of structure and the continuous shapes that go through them. This sense of symmetry and order is, however, contradicted by the organic and voluptuous forms that frame them. With this search for complementarity, this composition suggests the simultaneity of experiences, symbols, and layers that exist in each image or moment of our search for meaning.
Working as a labyrinth of senses or of narratives, subjects follow one another like doors that open on other doors, showing new details and meaning. Body parts, geometric shapes, smooth backgrounds and stormy skies cross the different levels of the composition, suggesting an increasing interest on fragment consistent with the - air du temps
. Colours and shapes create a duplicity of effects, as if seeking to simultaneously evoke and deny the three-dimensionality of the surface.
Maintaining all the familiar elements of the painter, from the mentioned bodies elements to the suggestions of almost lunar landscapes, with the disturbing smoothness of their backgrounds, this painting adopts a clear modernity in its use of fragment. Connecting the surrealist universe to broader questions of perception using both colour and contour line, chromatic surfaces mix smooth areas with others where colours blend and model the surface, providing an illusion of volume. Experimenting with abstraction, this composition also provides an opportunity for Cruzeiro Seixas to blend painting with drawing — an everlasting passion that we find here in the clear contour of some colour shapes.
Apart from his usual disquieting metamorphoses of dreamlike inspiration, we also find here a balance between the geometry of structure and the continuous shapes that go through them. This sense of symmetry and order is, however, contradicted by the organic and voluptuous forms that frame them. With this search for complementarity, this composition suggests the simultaneity of experiences, symbols, and layers that exist in each image or moment of our search for meaning.