Composition with guitar 

Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso created this painting, "Composition with Guitar", using oil paint in a style that blends Cubism with elements of Futurism. The painting confronts us with a bold arrangement of geometric shapes and vibrant colors. The textured yellow form at the center, punctuated by a teal circle, suggests a guitar's body, around which other shapes—rectangles of black and green, a white form, and touches of red—dance in a Cubist-inspired dissection of space. Souza-Cardoso's composition destabilizes traditional representation by fracturing the guitar into abstract components. This fragmentation echoes the Futurist interest in motion and modernity while maintaining a structured, almost architectural, organization. The interplay between the tactile paint application and the geometric forms creates a dynamic tension, reflecting early 20th-century debates about representation and abstraction. It invites us to question the nature of perception and the role of art in a rapidly changing world.