Mistletoe
Mistletoe
Oil, canvas, 63 x 58 cm
The artistic avant-garde of the early twentieth century led to a dramatic change in the appearance of painting. It no longer had to behave like a photograph, but it had to tell another story, a new story parallel to natural images, which explained the stylized and "hurried" character of the shapes. Instead of imitation, expressive alternations of textures entered the scene…
… Bright color contrasts, as in the case of these complementary color tones (red-green)…
…Or the almost “mathematical” constructions from the plans that invite the contemplation of the simplicity and beauty in the proportions… as, in fact, the Greek temples did millennia ago.
The work is done in a geometric abstract manner, using a color palette range of gray and brown. The image is broken by the organicity of the mistletoe in the foreground, which also gives dynamism to the composition. A red stain, framed in the gold section of the work, applied next to the green, gives a complementary contrast, which chromatically vitalizes the work.
Alma Redlinger
Mistletoe
Oil, canvas, 63 x 58 cm
Signed at the top right in gray: Alma Redlinger
Dated at the top right in gray and partially covered: 1976
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at the bottom left auction label, lot 553
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Condition of the work:
Good


Alma Redlinger
Bucharest, 1924 - Bucharest, 2017
She could have become an accountant had it not been for the series of tragedies that took place in Romania between 1939 and 1942.
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