Pintura perceptista nº 184 1948

Raul Lozza made this 'Pintura perceptista nº 184' with paint, and, well, look at that blue! It's like a swimming pool, but flat. I'm really drawn to how Lozza sets up the space. It’s very spare. The texture looks smooth, almost like paper cutouts stuck on a board. Notice how each shape casts a soft shadow, giving them a strange, floating presence. It’s like they’re dancing, or maybe just thinking about dancing. That little dark rectangle is like a punctuation mark in the sentence of this painting. It could easily be missed, but it quietly anchors the composition, like a full stop. There’s something playful but also very rigorous about the way Lozza organises these forms. It reminds me of the early, hard-edged abstraction, like Mondrian. But with a wink. A reminder that art is a conversation, not a lecture.