Ranchos orilleros

José Cúneo experienced a lengthy career in which he assimilated and experimented with numerous stages and transformations, yet it is in the 1930's that his work was at its most powerful. It is in this period that the sky, clouds and earth are contorted through a lense of expressionistic torpidity. In works of this period the sky and earth meet in curvaceous union, buildings bob upon the churning waters of the earth like boats and the whole world seems ready to flow down an unseen yet open drain. The pressure of the distorted elements weigh upon each other and remind us of the supremacy of natural forces in our lives.