Matthijs Röling (1943)
Winter
1976 | oil paint on canvas | 87 × 77 cm
With its dried sunflower and human skull, this painting initially reads as a reference to death or change, and as a reminder of their inevitability.
In the pinned-up poem, though, Matthijs Röling also describes the decline of art and the fear that his realistic view is outdated and will lose out to abstract art. In Winter, the three-coloured polyhedron that features in the other parts of the set is replaced by a bauble in which Röling has painted his own reflection.
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