Focus on La gare inondée (The Flooded Station) and explore the Description.
The painting is typical of Vieira da Silva's 1950s work that define her oeuvre and which paralleled the development of abstract expressionism in the United States at the same time. However Vieira da Silva's work differs from that movement in her treatment of space. She sought to free herself from the constraint of linear perspective, achieving in her mature work a sense of space with a dense mesh of lines and marks set against a background of flecks of color varying in intensity of tone.
oeuvre abstract expressionism United States