Horse with a Broken Leg

Mediums: oil, canvas.
Location: The Art Museum of Burn (Switzerland).

The artist’s paintings created before the beginning of the war express increasingly convey worries, and sometimes are tragic. The surrealistic nature of this painting of the Paris period is mostly expressed not in the figures of the white wounded horse and other animals depicted near it, but in the unnatural horizon line. Rising planes are depicted where the viewer usually sees even or convex shapes. The artist used a compositional view from above, having created the impression of a certain broken bowl, from which the animals could not get out. Not only the sad look of the horse does not fill you with optimism, but also the brown ground with burned areas and cracks.