The Lost Landscapes of England Anthony Amies’ paintings assert a classical conception of painting. From the mid 1970s, the British artis pursued a radical counter-concept to the art of his time with a stylistically peculiar landscape painting. They are calm and enigmatic pictures that do without any scandal.
In large-scale drawings and oil paintings, he plays with the “blot†technique: Amies abstracts the landscapes to convey an idea rather than a realistic image. The reduction to land and sea is a reflection on England and the loss of its individual landscapes to the monotony of industrial and urban proliferation and sprawling housing estates.
In this idiosyncrasy - the assertion of the genre of landscape painting and in the painterly quality of the works as a contribution to the assertion of painting in art - lies the importance of this English painter.
Format |
Inbunden |
Omfång |
192 sidor |
Språk |
Engelska |
Förlag |
Hatje Cantz |
Utgivningsdatum |
2023-07-13 |
ISBN |
9783775754705 |