Through a luminous painting, one of subtle chromatic blending, the rural  environment of the family farm was the first landscape Berni approached. In Europe the spectacle of the regions he visited would be useful for him to practice modern ways to analyze reality, structuring it according whether to Cézanne’s views or to certain expressive determinations. In the 30’s, landscapes were for Berni the scenery for his surrealist works as well as for his large compositions on social themes. By 1952 he produced a long series of suburban views, many of them belonging to the interior of the province of Buenos Aires, nearly deprived of human presence, a condition which stresses a certain silent atmosphere linked with the metaphysical school. In the end of that decade, he treated shantytowns with rich textures of informalist die, pictorially expressing the precarious variety of elements with which these constructions were made.