The Study of Dynamisme et Cinetisme 1948

Enrico Donati made this painting called, "The Study of Dynamisme et Cinetisme," and right away you can see the process of trying to find a language. There’s the brown background, maybe the first layer, and on top are these flatly painted geometric shapes. The colors have a waxy thickness about them. Look at the turquoise triangles. I’m curious about how Donati made them, were they taped off? It looks like a big house painter's brush might have been used to make the gray shape next to it, that looks like a weird rocket. I like how the circle kind of contains another world, with its own little shapes floating around. There’s something about the flat colors that makes me think of Stuart Davis. You can tell Donati is working out his own logic in this one, but it feels playful and unresolved, more like a question than an answer.