Alex Colville
Couple on Beach, 1957
Casein tempera on masonite, 73.4 x 96.4 cm
Couple on Beach, 1957
Casein tempera on masonite, 73.4 x 96.4 cm
Alex Colville
Family and Rainstorm, 1955
glazed tempera on masonite, 57.1 x 74.9 cm
Purchased 1957 National Gallery of Canada (no. 6754)
Source
Family and Rainstorm, 1955
glazed tempera on masonite, 57.1 x 74.9 cm
Purchased 1957 National Gallery of Canada (no. 6754)
Source
What I find most interesting about Colville's work is that it paradoxically flipflops between polarities. I can never decide whether it it serene or disquiet. While rigid and delineated, it seems to reverberate with ambiguous emotion. Anyway, it is beautiful.
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