Chris Gollon
Still Life With Falling Candles: Jazz Version
acrylic on Khadi paper, 2016
12 x 12 in
30.5 x 30.5 cm
30.5 x 30.5 cm
© Estate of Chris Gollon
This work by Chris Gollon is a monochrome version of the coloured 'Still Life With Falling Candles', and a companion piece to it. The monochrome image seemed to strangely take...
This work by Chris Gollon is a monochrome version of the coloured 'Still Life With Falling Candles', and a companion piece to it. The monochrome image seemed to strangely take life as a group of jazz musicians or musical notes.
In the early tradition of European still life painting, which began in Toledo, the old capital of Spain, objects were thought to have religious symbolism. For example, the lemon was fidelity in love, water was the Virgin Mary. Hope was symbolised by a lit candle.
Chris Gollon was a great painter of human relationships and human dramas, which he portrayed with great empathy, often with warm humour. Even in still life he was able to allude to a human drama or situation, which art historian Tamsin Pickeral describes so well in her book on Chris Gollon's life and work 'Humanity in Art', endorsed by Bill Bryson OBE. As Pickeral notes, by making the shadows all deliberately wrong, Gollon animates his objects, and breathes into them a human drama.
This painting is available from IAP Fine Art, please contact us for more details or click Enquire.
In the early tradition of European still life painting, which began in Toledo, the old capital of Spain, objects were thought to have religious symbolism. For example, the lemon was fidelity in love, water was the Virgin Mary. Hope was symbolised by a lit candle.
Chris Gollon was a great painter of human relationships and human dramas, which he portrayed with great empathy, often with warm humour. Even in still life he was able to allude to a human drama or situation, which art historian Tamsin Pickeral describes so well in her book on Chris Gollon's life and work 'Humanity in Art', endorsed by Bill Bryson OBE. As Pickeral notes, by making the shadows all deliberately wrong, Gollon animates his objects, and breathes into them a human drama.
This painting is available from IAP Fine Art, please contact us for more details or click Enquire.