MANINA
Sousvivre, 1958
Oil on canvas
Unframed: 27 1/2 x 39 3/8 in | 70 x 100 cm
Framed: 28 x 39 3/4 in | 71 x 101 cm
Framed: 28 x 39 3/4 in | 71 x 101 cm
A reclining biomorphic figure lies across a blue field that reads as water, night, or a psychic interior rather than a literal landscape. The white head, crescent-like mark, black branching...
A reclining biomorphic figure lies across a blue field that reads as water, night, or a psychic interior rather than a literal landscape. The white head, crescent-like mark, black branching lines, and mossy ochre terrain above the body give the composition a suspended, dream-state quality: the figure appears half-submerged, half-germinating, with the surrounding forms operating as landscape, anatomy, and symbolic weather at once. The paletteās saturated turquoise, deep ultramarine, and oxidized earth tones place the image close to postwar Surrealist dreamscape rather than to academic figuration.
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