题 目：Anthony Amies: Breaking Waves / 安东尼·艾米斯：破浪

作 者：Jens  Neubert

出 版：Hatje Cantz，2023

装 帧：精装，192页

语 种：英语

尺 寸：24.3*31.1 cm

The Lost Landscapes of England

Anthony Amies’ paintings assert a classical conception of painting. From the mid 1970s, the British artis pursued a radical counter-concept to the art of his time with a stylistically peculiar landscape painting. They are calm and enigmatic pictures that do without any scandal. In large-scale drawings and oil paintings, he plays with the “blot” technique: Amies abstracts the landscapes to convey an idea rather than a realistic image. The reduction to land and sea is a reflection on England and the loss of its individual landscapes to the monotony of industrial and urban proliferation and sprawling housing estates. In this idiosyncrasy – the assertion of the genre of landscape painting and in the painterly quality of the works as a contribution to the assertion of painting in art – lies the importance of this English painter.