Portrait of the Painter Vieytes
1938
Guillermo Laborde captures his fellow painter Vieytes with a gaze that feels both intense and weary, wrapped in a thick, sculptural white scarf that dominates the composition. Painted in 1938, this piece is a prime example of Laborde's 'Planismo' style—a uniquely Uruguayan take on modernism where he built faces and backgrounds out of chunky, interlocking planes of color rather than smooth blending. You can practically feel the texture of the paint; it looks less like a flat image and more like a mosaic made of frosting, stripping away glamour to show the raw, textured reality of the creative life.
- Technique
- Oil on canvas with heavy impasto
- Material
- Oil paint