In the spring/summer of 1928 Maruja Mallo presented the exhibition Cuadros y estampas [Paintings and Etchings], that included her most recent creations revolving around three concepts: folklore, the beach and sporting scenes, and images of cinema and mannequins.

Each one of these categories was resolved by means of a different technique. Color was predominant in subjects related to folklore while the cinematic images where black and white with a number of pale chromatic hues, as in this drawing in which the glasses have blue and brown reflections.

This compositional method is reminiscent of the findings in avant-garde film. Maruja Mallo used the technique of juxtaposition in order to create a third concept, much like Sergei Eisenstein. For example: the cocktails are juxtaposed to the laboratory flasks; the eyeless baroque angel to the glass eyes; the steps to the gradation of the clouds in the sky. In this way the work conveys the idea of a decadent world within a space that is conceived as a theater.