Dívka S Mandolínou 

Emil Filla painted "Girl with a Mandolin", sometime in the 20th century, using a Cubist visual language. The composition is a symphony of fractured forms, a flattened perspective, and objects distilled into their essential shapes. The colour palette, though somewhat muted, vibrates with a sense of controlled energy. Filla engages here with the Cubist project of deconstructing and reassembling reality on the canvas, challenging traditional notions of representation. The still life is broken down into its constituent parts. The guitar, bottle and fruit dish become abstract shapes. This approach to form destabilizes the viewer's expectations, inviting one to question fixed perspectives and to engage with the artwork on a more conceptual level. Notice how the overall composition is stabilized through subtle, almost symmetrical arrangement of the fractured objects. This creates a visual harmony amidst the deconstruction, suggesting that even in fragmentation, there exists an underlying order. It's not just about seeing; it's about rethinking the very nature of seeing.