Nature morte sur une table 1911 - 1912

Georges Valmier made "Nature morte sur une table" using oil paint and, looking at it, I can imagine him building this still life, almost like a game of Jenga. I wonder what Valmier was thinking as he constructed these geometric forms. Maybe he was trying to find a new way to see the everyday objects around him, breaking them down into their most basic shapes. The paint is applied in thick, deliberate strokes, creating a textured surface that catches the light. I really like the way he used a limited color palette of grays, browns, and greens, with pops of orange and yellow to draw your eye to the center of the composition. It reminds me of how artists like Picasso and Braque were also experimenting with Cubism at the time, trying to capture multiple perspectives of an object in a single image. There's this conversation happening between artists, bouncing ideas off each other, and pushing the boundaries of what painting can be. Painting’s like this embodied expression, it's ambiguous, it embraces uncertainty, and that opens it up to infinite readings.