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Oil Painting - A Midsummer Night

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©Gillian Ayres

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Basic Information

Accession Number:1995P30
Collection:Fine Art Paintings and Sculpture
Date:1990 - 1990

Maker Information

Artist:Gillian Ayres - View biography for Gillian Ayres

Notes

Gillian Ayres is one of Britain's leading abstract painters. A Midsummer Night owes its inspiration to the artist's experience of India, where she spent several weeks painting in 1990. Her aim is to create intense compositions of exuberant colour, form and texture which offer a rich visual experience to the viewer. She said:

'People think beauty is sort of slushy or something. I was surprised the other day by Howard Hodgkin saying he didn't like things to be 'just beautiful'. But why not? I think beauty can lift you up and sort of take your feet away from the ground, but I also think it's very sensible, a sort of reasonable thing. I mean, if the world doesn't care about it, then I think the world's potty.'

Purchased with assistance from the the MGC/VandA Purchase Grant Fund, National Art Collections Fund, and the Trustees of the Public Picture Gallery Fund,1995.

Further Information

Production Period:20th century
School/Style:Abstract
Medium:Oil on canvas.
Material(s):Canvas

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Dimensions

Height:1830 mm
Width:3690 mm