67. Spinner [1948]

Although he begins his artistic formation alongside some of the most important representatives of modernism, Max Herman Maxy would become one of the most avid promoters of the avant-garde movement on the Romanian territory, and most notably of the cubist pictorial manner. Across time, the artist's style would be subject to several transformations, and his work would encounter successive constructivist stages, as well as stages influenced by a moderate modernism, in which we notably distinguish the principles of realism and the influences of pictorial narrative. Although in the majority of his creations he works in a constructivist manner and plays with spectres and mirrors, in the current work he adheres to a much more conventional pictorial style, in which we can easily distinguish the influence of his first teacher, Camil Ressu. The social theme approached by Maxy, especially after 1940, is emphasized by the female protagonist, who seems to be taken from those monumental canvases of countryside subject matters painted by Ressu in Vlaici. For a while, the small, picturesque village in the Olt county represented a source of inspiration for Maxy as well, as, upon invitation from landowner and art collector Alexandru Bogdan-Pitești, he would spend his summers in Vlaici, depicting on his canvases themes inspired by country life.

References

OPREA, Petre, "M. H. Maxy", Meridiane Publishing House, Bucharest, 1974. ILK, Michael, "M. H. Maxy. Artist integralist", Berlin, 2003.

Dimensions

width 48.2 cm, height 62.4 cm, custom 62,4 × 48,2 cm

Description

oil on thin cardboard, signed and dated bottom right, in green, "Maxy, 1948"

Dating

1948

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