New York Street or New York Landscape

Joaquín Torres García's New York paintings, such as "New York Street" (1920), depict urban life, industrialism and commerce with dynamism and a certain frenetic energy. For him, his works of this period were "synthetic impressions of a distorted New York", at once "expressionistic and geometric", and embodied a personal vision he had achieved while living in the city. In this work, the hectic life of the city is an amalgam of building facades, automobiles, elevated trains, steamships, passengers, and commercial signs juxtaposed in overlapping planes with multiple perspectives. His New York experience necessarily helped him establish the structural matrix and construction of forms that he would later incorporate into his compositions of the 1930s.