134. Still Life with Marigolds and Fan [1930-1935]

Still life is a recurring theme in Theodor Pallady's work, and its message is usually encoded in the combinations of more or less conventional objects. Pallady creates an intimate painting, inspired by everyday life, in which he reveals himself to the public. He builds genuine pictorial poems in which the subjects are harmoniously decoded, through rhythms and colors. Whether they are flower pots, meals, dishware, newspapers or books; or even take the form of his usual props: glasses or a cane, the subjects proposed by Pallady are most often inspired by immediate reality. In the artist's works, the incisive line of the drawing predominates, the importance of the graphic stroke being taken from Degas. He used to constantly reiterate the primacy of form over brushwork and color. A consummate master of composition, Pallady excels in arranging the elements that make up his still lifes. Usually, the books that crown the tables in his compositions refer to volumes that form the literary core of the painter: Baudelaire, Proust or Nietzsche. We can therefore translate the literary, poetic or philosophical rhythms from his creation into the interpretation of the meanings of universal masterpieces. This time, however, the central subject of the work is represented by the glass of flowers, harmoniously framed on the white tray, between the green fruit and the slightly open forgotten fan. In addition to literature, Pallady found inspiration in music, so his works will be deeply influenced by the solemnity that the artist takes from Beethoven's scores. We can therefore affirm that the artist ingeniously rendered the beauty of forms that generally appear devoid of meaning and excelled in the encoding of symbols in most of his canvases.

References

"Theodor Pallady's Drawings from the Collection of the Țării Crișurilor Museum", in "Biharea", 1980, pp. 291-322. Florin Rogneanu, "Theodor Pallady and the Temptation of the Absolute", in "Oltenia. Studies and Communications", no. V-VI, 1986, pp. 205-209. ȘORBAN, Raoul, "Theodor Pallady", Ed. Meridiane, Bucharest, 1975. CEBUC, Alexandru, "Pallady", Ed. Official Monitor R. A., Bucharest, 2008.

Dimensions

width 33 cm, height 40 cm

Description

ulei pe carton, signed top right, in black, "T. Pallady"

Dating

1930-1935

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