Crop of the Autumn 1969

Vasile Dobrian's, Crop of the Autumn, is a print, so the color is laid down as flat areas in a jigsaw of shapes. It is the kind of art that makes you think about the process of artmaking as a kind of puzzle. Look at the way that the blue flattens everything and the way Dobrian allows areas of texture to build up, like the cross-hatching which describes the woven baskets on the left. It’s like he is playing with how much information he wants to give us and how much he wants to leave open to interpretation. In a similar way to Stuart Davis, Dobrian reduces figures to flattened planes of color in a way that embraces ambiguity.