The artwork titled “Car” is a piece created by Saul Steinberg in 1953. It belongs to the Surrealism art movement and falls under the illustration genre.
In the artwork, Steinberg presents an imaginative and surreal depiction of a car, using a large challah bread as the main body of the vehicle. The bread has four distinct, round sections that vaguely resemble wheels at the bottom. The setting is stark and minimalist, with a delicate, sparse background that includes minimalistic, linear indications of trees and structures. The entire composition is rendered in a monochromatic palette, enhancing its surreal and whimsical quality. The artwork demonstrates Steinberg’s characteristic wit and his ability to blend the mundane with the absurd, represented by the unexpected use of a bread loaf as a car.
