If the painting is placed on its side, the image becomes
abstract with two zones along a slight diagonal. The buildings
are no longer distinct, becoming blocks of something else, perhaps stacks of machinery. We
are not accustomed to this orientation.
Consider this section of the painting seen below:
This altered
perspective and the image to the right emphasize the abstract quality of the city
paintings. The colors and the elemental geometry of rectangles
and parallelograms offer mental play.
A return to the normal view can now be examined with the
added consideration of their being merely painted geometric forms upon
canvas.