The White and the Black

The painting was created at a time when European art saw the intersection of New Realism, Art Déco, Ingrism and the New Objectivity. As a whole, these stylistic movements marked a return to visual reality and a more realistic form of depiction that followed the cubist and abstract experiments of the early 20th century. In the 1920s and 30s, realistic tendencies were all-embracing and could be seen…