Sketch for Venus
Sketch for VenusCategory: Selected Recent Paintings by Chris Gollon
Artist: Chris Gollon
Subject: Early Thoughts
Date of Work: October
Year of Work: 2008
Media: acrylic on canvas
Size: 36" x 24"
£4,250 (including frame)This painting is part of the series entitled 'Early Thoughts'. In preparation for his Fellowship & Residency at the Institute of Advanced Study in early 2009, Chris Gollon began six months before to explore his own general idea and early thoughts on the Fellowship's theme: 'Being Human'.
With Apollo, Chris started to look at the gods mankind has created, and those who like Apollo got left behind, as civilizations changed. In a similar fashion, he has painted Venus, and one painting also as the end of love or life entitled 'And in the End'.
Chris Gollon is developing a very unique and stylized anatomy in these figures, using a large degree of abstraction, yet retaining some degree of the representational. It imbues these figures with a strange but sculptural 'essence' of Woman or humankind. In 2008-9, this remarkable technique helped him develop a way of using figures like these to describe ideas, as he prepared for the 'Being Human' Fellowship at the IAS, Durham.
