David Oxtoby
Old Glory (Jimi Hendrix)
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Acrylic on canvases
294.6 x 281.9 cm (inches: 116 x 111.)
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A major painting from David Oxtoby's series of works completed since 1980. This group of paintings (of which there are 100) are a visual memoir of the formative years of popular music.
'Where Oxtoby's pictures were once meticulous in their fidelity to appearances, they are now much more reliant on abstract shapes, different keys of pure colour at high volume and even a wilful crudeness from which a dynamic charge explodes. They now have in them a stronger element of Expressionism than Pop Art, but Oxtoby makes use of the heritage of 20th-century art - including such unlikely, not to say contradictory, bedfellows as Cubism and Abstract Expressionism with a strong element of primitivism - with the same freedom that he admired in the synthesis of musical styles from which rock'n'roll and later rock were forged. 'It's right at the beginning of rock'n'roll,' observes the artist, 'where everything was a cobbling together of different styles and forms.'
Marco Livingstone
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