Six centuries of artistic creation
1908-1992 Portugal
In 1947, after seven years of exile in Brazil as a result of the war in Europe, Vieira da Silva returned to Paris. It was the beginning of a particularly creative transition period, during which she delved into the issues that have always seduced her: space and its structural complexity, light, and pictorial research around abstraction. This painting reflects her interest in urban architectures and landscapes whose volumes are captured in a synthesis between observation of the real and deconstruction of that same reality. The memory of an urban vision and a spatial reality arises in bright and colourful planes, punctuated by the diversity of shapes and colour, which intersect and fit together in different planes and dimensions, in a chromatic and geometric web in warm tones of yellow, orange and red, oscillating between figuration and abstraction.
| Oil on paper, glued on canvas, 46 x 27 cm
| LISBON. Arpad Szenes-Vieira da Silva Foundation
