Autopsy

Autopsy is a portrait format painting on canvas-board that shares strong similarities to Antarctic Exploration I and Antarctic Exploration II in its simple composition consisting of a heavily textured ground and selected, embedded foreground objects. Similarly, it is free of painted representation, existing intrinsically as an autonomous artefact. Unlike the uniform white of the two other works, the background is more varied, from very dark at the edges of the painting to a more translucent sky blue in the centre. This change in tones and hue helps draw the eye to the focal point an intriguing lighter patch of paint that suggests a cave opening, a window or a patch of sky. The interpretation is intentionally left ambiguous but does create the illusion of pictorial depth.

Price: RN/A

Availability: Sold

Date Painted: 2013

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