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Jean Metzinger (French, 1883-1956), Still Life with Box (Nature morte avec boȋte), circa 1918. Oil on canvas. New Orleans Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. Richard M. Wise and Mrs. John Weinstock in memory of Madelyn C. Kreisler.
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Toward the end of the nineteen teens, despite their belief in the theory and practice of abstraction, modernist painters in France began to re-integrate a sense of the natural object into their work. This was particularly the case with Metzinger around 1918, when he painted Still Life with Box. Reference to recognizable elements such as tablecloth, the wood grain of the table, a teapot, and playing cards, make up the still life elements that surround an open box. Thus, despite the overlapping shapes carefully arranged according to abstract, geometric shapes to the picture’s edge, the center of the composition is a small space represented in perspective. The variety of color used by Metzinger enhances the painting’s legibility and adds a bright jovial note to the tone of the technically complex composition.
