The Domestic Symphony (La Symphonie domestique)

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FROM THE BARNES FOUNDATION’S CATALOG

Vieira da Silva, who was born in Portugal but spent most of her career in Paris, liked to listen to music as she painted. This abstract interior scene invites comparisons to the rhythmic nature of music. The painted perspectival walls enclose various colorful forms that could be read as furnishings—chairs, rugs, floor lamps—and which are overlaid with multicolor horizontal lines. These lines contradict the depiction of a three-dimensional room by flattening space, creating a densely woven composition that plays with mark making and perspective.

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