Tuesday, September 22, 2020

Red Surfaces (Paint)

Orhon Mübin
Untitled
1961
oil on canvas
Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, Norwich

Bryan Illsley
Red Square
1967
oil on canvas
New County Hall, Truro, Cornwall

Patrick Heron
Cadmium and Light Red: January 1967
1967
oil on canvas
University of Stirling, Scotland

Donald Dean
Four Star Motif
1968
oil on canvas
Kirkleatham Museum, Redcar, Yorkshire

William Turnbull
11-1970
1970
oil on canvas
British Council Collection, London

John Hoyland
Red over Yellow 18.9.73
1973
acrylic on canvas
Southbank Centre, London

Alan Michael Green
Red over Crimson
1980
oil on canvas
Southbank Centre, London

Kate Whiteford
Pompeiian Red
ca. 1981
acrylic on canvas
Glasgow Museums

Rui Paes
Untitled
1988
oil on canvas
Royal College of Art, London

Dead you will lie and never memory of you
will there be nor desire into the aftertime – for you do not share in the roses
of Pieria, but invisible too in Hades' house
you will go your way among dim shapes. Having been breathed out.

– from If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho, translated by Anne Carson (2002)

David Stevens
Red Painting
1994
oil on canvas
University of Sunderland, Tyne and Wear

Graeme Todd
Lovecraft
1997
oil, acrylic, pastel and lacquer on board
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh

Ian McKeever
Assumptio II (Breathing)
1999
oil and acrylic on canvas
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, West Midlands

Chris Malcomson
Spiral 2
ca. 2000
acrylic on canvas
Department of Economics, University of Oxford

Tess Jaray
How Strange
2001
oil on linen
Royal Academy of Arts, London

Charles Walsh
Untitled - Red Painting
2003
oil on canvas
Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Ulster