1955, Alan Davie, Painting, July -- National Gallery of Ireland (Dublin)
From the museum label: Alan Davie was one of the first British artists to engage in Abstract Expressionism. In the late 1940s he travelled across Europe and saw the work of Pablo Picasso, Paul Klee and Joan Miro. In Venice he came to know Peggy Guggenheim and saw the Jackson Pollock paintings in her collection. Painting, July, is one of Davie's early gestural paintings. He has applied paint in a rough impasto; stippled, dripped, splashed, and scored it; and left areas of canvas barely painted at all. As well as being a painter, printmaker, and jewellery designer, Davie was also a poet and jazz musician. He often compared the act of painting to musical improvisation.
1955, Alan Davie, Painting, July -- National Gallery of Ireland (Dublin)
From the museum label: Alan Davie was one of the first British artists to engage in Abstract Expressionism. In the late 1940s he travelled across Europe and saw the work of Pablo Picasso, Paul Klee and Joan Miro. In Venice he came to know Peggy Guggenheim and saw the Jackson Pollock paintings in her collection. Painting, July, is one of Davie's early gestural paintings. He has applied paint in a rough impasto; stippled, dripped, splashed, and scored it; and left areas of canvas barely painted at all. As well as being a painter, printmaker, and jewellery designer, Davie was also a poet and jazz musician. He often compared the act of painting to musical improvisation.