Monday, July 13, 2020

Strong Colors, Familiar Objects (Selectively Distorted) - I

John Bellany
The Severed Head
ca. 1985
oil on canvas
Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art

Vivien Blackett
Tower, Scarf
1987
oil on canvas
British Council Collection, London

Prunella Clough
The District Line
1964
oil on canvas
Hatton Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne

Kenneth Cozens
Burning Mountain
1966
oil on canvas
Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art

Brigid Derham
Transcription from Giorgione's Tempesta, No. 2
1970
oil on canvas
Government Art Collection, London

Graham Durward
Artist with Burning Feet
1983
oil on canvas
Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art

from Oh Christianity, Christianity

Do you mean He did not know that He was God,
Did not know He was the Second Person of the Trinity?
(Oh, if He knew this, and was,
It was a source of strength for Him we do not have)
But this theology of 'emptying' you preach sometimes –
That He emptied Himself of knowing He was God – seems
A theology of false appearances
To mock your facts, as He was God, whether He knew He was or not.

– Stevie Smith (ca. 1966)

Paul Feiler
Abstract with Urn
1958
acrylic on paper
Ingram Collection, London

Neil Feldman
Dunes Landscape with Window
1995
oil on canvas
Nottingham Trent University

Alan Fletcher
Young Girl
ca. 1957
oil on board
Dundee Art Galleries and Museums, Scotland

Derrick Greaves
Entering a Room with Difficulty
1979
acrylic on canvas
Norfolk Museums

Lys Hansen
Act I Scene II (Duet)
1987
oil and pastel on paper
University of Stirling, Scotland

Barbara Howey
After Image
2010
oil on board
Priseman Seabrook Collection, Wivenhoe, Essex

Allen Jones
Thinking About Women
1961-62
oil on canvas
Norfolk Museums

Sonia Lawson
Teatime at Haworth with the Brontës
1981
oil on canvas
Mercer Art Gallery, Harrogate, Yorkshire

John Lewis
Still Life No. 1
2002
acrylic on canvas
Coventry University, Warwickshire