After the establishment of the communist regime in Romania, the artists were forced to submit to the artistic program of the party, and the imposed style was socialist realism. In the 1970s, however, Romania went through a so-called period of cultural "thawing", a context in which several artists began to experiment with contemporary Western artistic styles.

A large part of contemporary artistic directions have their roots in avant-garde artistic movements. Cubism at the beginning of the twentieth century will leave its mark on contemporary art, as can be seen in the work of Alma Redlinger.

The principle of analytical cubism, to capture an object from several angles reassembled in a single image, can be seen in the way the glass is rendered, whose cylindrical trunk seems to be viewed from the front, while the rim of the glass appears to be viewed from above.

The principles of synthetic cubism, that is the last phase of the style initiated by Picasso and Braque, are even more clearly emulated in this work. In the synthetic phase, the bodies are not rendered from multiple angles, but are reduced to a few suggestive stylized shapes.

If Picasso and Braque often use collage in the synthetic period, Alma Redlinger creates images with a similar look using only oil, through these flattened and overlaid surfaces like paper cutouts, glued on top of each other.

In the period of analytical cubism, all the artists' works were dominated by gray and ochre, but in the synthetic period they return to a wide chromatic palette, as in the case of the flat and saturated surfaces of this work.