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Cradle Of Civilization With American Woman
''Cradle of Civilization with American Woman'' is a 1982 painting by Malcolm Morley, inspired by the artist's visit to Greece that year. The painting is in the permanent collection of the Musée National d'Art Moderne, in the Centre Pompidou, in Paris, France. Background This canvas was executed during a period when Morley turned to new subjects, including mythology and the Classical Western world. It was joined in his output by other works with similar themes among which are ''Aegean Crime'' (1987), and ''Black Rainbow Over Oedipus at Thebes'' (1988). One of the signature elements of these works is their depiction of Minoan figures. The work is included in the volume ''Post-Modernism: The New Classicsm in Art and Architecture'', New York 1987, by Charles Jencks which helped to layout the visual art canon of the emergent Post-Modern#Art, Post-Modern school of visual aesthetics.https://www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-4189411 References 1982 paintings English paintings Horses i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malcolm Morley
Malcolm A. Morley (June 7, 1931 – June 1, 2018) was a British-American visual artist and painter. He was known as an artist who pioneered in various styles, working as a photorealist and an expressionist, among many other genres. In 1984, he won the inaugural Turner Prize. Life Morley was born in north London. He had a troubled childhood—after his home was partially blown up by a bomb during World War II, his family was homeless for a time. He recalled that he had constructed a balsawood model of and placed it on his windowsill when the German bomb destroyed the house along with the model. "The shock was so violent," writes one Morley expert, "that Morley repressed this memory until it resurfaced 30 years later during a psychoanalytic session." As a teenager, Morley was sentenced to three years at Wormwood Scrubs prison for housebreaking and petty theft. While there, he read Irving Stone's 1934 novel '' Lust for Life'', based on the life of Vincent van Gogh, and enrolled ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |