The Cut
Carlos Alonso
,Oil on cardboard, 152 × 101cm.
Three paintings on themes dear to the artist’s heart complete the collection: in Desnudo (Nude), produced in the early 1990s, Alonso deploys all his talents as a fine colorist through the use of light tones that accompany an intimate atmosphere of seclusion in the figure of the young woman lying down; in El corte (The Cut), however, there is a violent sensuality, characteristic of tango, resolved in strong contrasts in drawing and color; and, finally, in Las flores del estudio (The Flowers in the Studio), the work being sketched out on the canvas and the model (a vase with sunflowers) are resolved with a solid formal architecture: a grid that could unexpectedly be associated with Mondrian, considering the precise division into planes according to the golden mean. The structure is supported by the clean-cut chromatic division: blacks, yellows, reds, greens and the white of the canvas that is soon to take on new life.