Gros Plan Fixe D'Une Metamorphose 1960

Victor Brauner painted *Gros Plan Fixe D'Une Metamorphose* with oil on canvas. The canvas is a textured brown, and the figure is a pieced-together, soft-hued color block: yellow, pink, and lavender. The pink section morphs into a bull's head with curving horns, a sort of geometric Picasso-esque beast. I wonder what Brauner was thinking as he placed those features? The color palette makes me think of Paul Klee, who was also into cartoonish figuration. I like the idea of metamorphosis. It is all the possibilities of form, where representation starts to wobble, and a thing can be more than one thing at once. The texture makes me think of the surface of the moon, rough and cratered; the painting is an object in space. The cartoon figure, the moon, the animal, the human. It is a strange combination but full of a weird, cosmic humour.