Figures with five colours

Canvas, oil.

Rhe Museum of Torres Garcia, Montevideo (Uruguay).

The work of the late period created using colour schemes according to the canons of Neoplasticism (red, yellow, white, black) is also a tribute to Cubist principles. Geometrically presented figures of people are inscribed in a space also consisting of rectangles, squares, rhombuses and triangles. At the same time, the grid (also the canon of Neoplasticists) does not prevent the author from conveying the scene of the characters’ active communication and the general living atmosphere. In the mid-1940s, Torres created a number of paintings in a similar manner – they always contain characters – people and sometimes animals.