Title:
La Grotta di Calipso (1978)
Medium: Etching and Aquatint
Size: 39 1/2" x 39 1/2" (100 x 100 cm)
Edition: numbered from the edition of 90
Signed in pencil
Price: $4,500
Title:
Points of Contact No. 11
Medium: Screenprint
Image Size: 24" x 54" (61.3 x 137.7 cm)
Framed Size: 34 1/4" x 64 3/8" (87 x 163.5 cm)
Edition: proof apart from the edition of 70
Signed: in pencil, lower right
Price: $3,500
Can the artists
of today express themselves as well in independent abstract
as the old masters did in representational art? I think
they can, for art need not be representational. 'Art exists,
not to instruct or persuade the mind,' Charles Morgan
once wrote in a literary review, 'but to impregnate the
imagination.' The brother of an artist should be able
to reveal some home-truths, particularly if he can recall,
as I do, such incidents as drawing battleships and aeroplanes
with him in the nursery during the First World War. My
brother has moved a long way since then, but some of his
early traits remain unchanged. For instance, he always
painted for himself. I used to attribute this to obstinacy
or selfishness, but have since come to realize that single-mindedness
or integrity would have been more fitting terms. For centuries
artists have expressed themselves in terms of the visual
world; but the task of the abstract painter today is different
because he is striving to express beauty without recourse
to the inherent appeal to natural forms. 'What beauty
is I know not though it adheres to many things,' wrote
Dorer.
'When we wish
to bring it into our work we must gather it from far and
wide.' This leads me to mention another trait in my brother,
which his need to gather from far and wide. Like a research
worker he moves forward only when the problem in front
of him has been solved, but at the same time always looking
toward: some ultimate goal. He has gathered knowledge
both from nature and the old masters, and in his early
work he learned their techniques and applied them to his
pictures. The strength of his work, therefore, lies in
the solid foundation he has in the past, from which he
reaches out into the future. Now my brother has emerged
on his own and has joined that community of painters and
sculptors whom I like to call the 'music-makers' because
they compose independently with forms and colours in the
same way that musicians compose with sounds.
-Stephen
Pasmore
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