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The Argonauts |
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In The Big Café can be seen
both the new ideas coming from his French experience of 1934-35, like the solidity of the compositional structure, ideas
which he refined significantly in the intense exercise of his art that he carried out
during his imprisonment, and elements of continuity with his preceding production, as in
the first picture of the Argonauts, in the rendering of the sense of isolation of
the figures which nonetheless maintain strong contact with their surrounding environment
and with each other. The figurative problem
which the artist had to face here consisted precisely in harmonizing all the elements
derived from his various experiences - the definition of a formal equilibrium and of
essentially mental colors - while still remaining in the sphere of figure painting and
thus seeking to represent a concrete space. |
