Landscape with Cart

This landscape is a good example of the juxtaposition of forces that characterises the work of Díaz Caneja and which principally comprise a constructivist intent derived from Cubism and a tendency towards a de-structuring abstraction. As Enrique Azcoaga has noted: “Caneja, who had achieved a crystallisation of his vision of Spain over the course of his career, subsequently needed to de-crystallise it”. In the present work, which probably dates from the transitional period between these two phases, the artist retained geometrical volume as the central motif in his depiction of the gentle and tame but simultaneously vast extension of the countryside divided into cultivated strips.