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Still Life with Pears
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During the 1940s, Delaney's approach to the still life genre became increasingly
abstract. Still Life with Pears was created in the middle of that progression. Delaney presents
the painting's colorful elements in a flattened manner, where shapes and lines suggest a decorative
pattern on a two-dimensional surface, rather than separate elements occupying an imagined space.
As in his urban landscapes, Delaney employs diagonals here in the foreground to imply the
surface of a table placed at an angle to the patterned space behind the bowl of fruit. However,
instead of presenting the bowl from the side in relationship to the table, the artist tipped
the bowl upward. Consequently, the viewer is confronted with two perspectives simultaneously:
peering into the picture from the side guided by the diagonals, and looking straight down into
the bowl from above.
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