Oil and mixed media on canvas
Crypt by Isabel Adams
Crypt by Isabel Adams , New College Stamford Art Foundation Exhibition , Oil and mixed media on canvas
Oil and mixed media on canvas
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 239.8pt;""><b"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"">Oil and mixed media on canvas<br"></span"></b"><b"><span style="font-size: 12pt;""> 136 x 94 cm<br"></span"></b"><b"><span style="font-size: 12pt;""> £200 </span"></b"><span style="font-size: large;"">The<br>
culture behind storytelling and myths is a reoccurring theme in my work.<br>
Looking at the theme ‘Pandemic’, I imagined how the era of Covid-19 will be<br>
re-told and developed in the future. I was inspired greatly by Henry Moore’s<br>
time as a war artist, and Anselm Kiefer’s reflection upon the effect of the<br>
Second World War on German Culture. Researching history, myths and religious<br>
texts I discovered stories and events that transformed people: Lot’s wife, who<br>
was turned to a pillar of salt in the Bible, Greek mythology in which a nymph<br>
was transformed into a tree or a group of people who decided to live in the<br>
sewers during the Black Death in 1665. My main piece therefore, looks at the effects<br>
that Lockdown has had on people- as if they were wasting away, feeling as if<br>
they were alone or becoming shadows of their former selves. My work dramatises<br>
interiors, making them tunnel-like and claustrophobic, and the human form which<br>
becomes a skeletal structure, both isolated and frail in appearance.</span"></p"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:239.8pt""><font size="4""></font"></p">
Oil and mixed media on canvas
136 x 94 cm
£200 The
culture behind storytelling and myths is a reoccurring theme in my work.
Looking at the theme ‘Pandemic’, I imagined how the era of Covid-19 will be
re-told and developed in the future. I was inspired greatly by Henry Moore’s
time as a war artist, and Anselm Kiefer’s reflection upon the effect of the
Second World War on German Culture. Researching history, myths and religious
texts I discovered stories and events that transformed people: Lot’s wife, who
was turned to a pillar of salt in the Bible, Greek mythology in which a nymph
was transformed into a tree or a group of people who decided to live in the
sewers during the Black Death in 1665. My main piece therefore, looks at the effects
that Lockdown has had on people- as if they were wasting away, feeling as if
they were alone or becoming shadows of their former selves. My work dramatises
interiors, making them tunnel-like and claustrophobic, and the human form which
becomes a skeletal structure, both isolated and frail in appearance.
Medium |
Oil and mixed media on canvas - more |
Artist |
New College Stamford Art Foundation Exhibition - more |
POA
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