Still Life by Carlos Scliar

Still Life 1970

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oil-paint

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cubism

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abstract painting

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oil-paint

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oil painting

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neo expressionist

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geometric

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abstraction

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modernism

Dimensions: overall: 74.8 x 54.9 cm (29 7/16 x 21 5/8 in.)

Copyright: National Gallery of Art: CC0 1.0

Carlos Scliar made this 'Still Life' painting, with its blocks of blues, browns, yellows, and reds, and hard-edged forms, probably in the mid-20th Century. I imagine Scliar here, teasing out the geometry inside things. The painting feels like it’s been constructed, one plane at a time. And the tension between flatness and depth is palpable. Look at the way the coffee pot is built from geometric forms, and how the various blocks both sit side-by-side and create a sense of receding space, a kind of shallow box for the pot and plate to exist in. There's a tension in the way the handle of the pot is rendered with a single thin line. You know, artists are always looking at each other, responding, and reinventing the world, one painting at a time. I think Scliar has made a painting about that kind of conversation.

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