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Alan Davie

Spirit Over the Landscape, 1948

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About the artwork

Inspired by a tour of Europe he made in 1948 with his wife, where he explored both ancient and modern art, Davie experimented with monotype printing, devising a low-budget technique that involved sandwiching ink between a pane of glass and a sheet of paper, and scratching the paper with his fingers. The resulting image only became visible once the sheet was lifted.

Abstract Art

Artist Alan Davie
Artwork Spirit Over the Landscape
Date of work 1948
Credit Monotype on paper 24.9 x 40.3 cm © Alan Davie

ABOUT THE ARTIST

James Alan Davie (1920–2014) was a Scottish painter and printmaker. Davie drew on imagery and symbolism from various world cultures, both ancient and modern, to create his vivid paintings. Born in Grangemouth, Scotland in 1920, he first earned global recognition in the 1950s as one of the first British artists after the Second World War to develop an expressive form of abstraction. Fascinated by global mythologies, and seeing himself more as a medium – or shaman – than artist, he attempted to free his painting from mental processes, creating a style that was spontaneous, improvised and complex.

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