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Anthony Amies: Breaking Waves
Jens Neubert, Jens Toivakainen, Walter Feilchenfeldt; Text written by Alan Windsor
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R1,251
Discovery Miles 12 510
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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.
Vincent van Gogh's tumultuous final years were the climax of his
career as a colourist. In France he reached a sustained height of
expression and created a prodigious quantity of work, the
importance of which is incontestable. In the landscapes, portraits
and still lifes from this period the intensity and singularity of
vision finds its apotheosis. Presented here is a comprehensive
illustrated catalogue of Van Gogh's paintings executed between 1886
and 1890 in Paris, Arles, Saint-Remy and Auvers-sur-Oise. Each of
some 580 works from that time is reproduced in full colour and
appears in related scale to its original size. All known provenance
is given. For the first time the paintings recorded in early
documents like the 'Andries Bonger Inventory List' of 1890 and the
1905 Amsterdam Exhibition are fully identified. This book includes
a wealth of new information of crucial importance to collectors,
dealers, art historians and public institutions, while providing an
extraordinary visual record of the most creative and productive
period of Van Gogh's career. It promises to be one of the most
significant and enduring contributions to the understanding of this
artist.
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