Conspiration 1934

Victor Brauner painted this curious scene called "Conspiration" and you get the feeling he mixed up a cocktail of surrealism and symbolism and then downed it in one gulp. Look how Brauner built up the colors, laying down that dark blue sky. Did he start with that strong black block and then decide to interrupt it with those strange, stylized figures? They’re caught in some kind of silent exchange, their forms pieced together like a bizarre puzzle. The painting almost feels like a stage set, doesn't it? It's like Brauner’s inviting us into his own version of a theatre of the absurd, a place where hidden meanings lurk beneath the surface. I imagine him, brush in hand, coaxing these odd figures to life, each stroke a step further into his own personal myth. The curtain in the window is particularly evocative, hinting at unseen dramas, a voyeuristic element that keeps the eye moving around the canvas. It is all so evocative. Painting is like a conversation that never ends, Brauner is in dialogue with the Symbolists and Surrealists here, but also with other artists and with himself.