Emil Filla, 1882-1953
Two glasses and a bottle of wine, 1914
Oil on canvas
Emil Filla’s painting work undoubtedly represents the peak of Czech modernist painting. Like many of his contemporaries, Filla was also influenced in many ways by the groundbreaking Cubism, an artistic movement that abandoned for good the attempt to capture reality on canvas through graded perspective. The painting Two Glasses and a Bottle of Wine was painted by Filla during his so called. of the Dutch period entirely according to the principles of analytical cubism. The artist broke the traditional perspective representation of space and structured the surface of the painting into surfaces, square fragments or open semicircles. It is only with effort and the help of association that we are able to discern the motif depicted. The colour palette, dominated by brown and grey tones, is very subtle.
