Alison Watt: Phantom

ISBN: 1857094123

Author: Wiggins, Colin

Condition: Used

British artist Alison Watt (b. 1965) creates monumental paintings depicting richly draped fabric. These canvases show closely cropped folds, gathers, tucks, and creases--all sensuously developed from a selective palette of white, grey, burnt sienna, cadmium red, and yellow.The National Gallerys seventh Associate Artist, Watt has been working in a studio near the permanent collection. This proximity to masterpieces she has long admired has concentrated her focus on the tradition of drapery in western art and inspired her dramatically abstracted reinterpretations. This beautifully designed and illustrated book presents her most recent series of powerful, large-scale paintings. In an essay featuring photographs of Watt at work in the gallery studio, Colin Wiggins reviews the artists creative process. Also included is a new piece written by celebrated Scottish poet Don Paterson that responds to these works.Published by National Gallery Company/Distributed by Yale University PressExhibition Schedule:National Gallery, London (March 13 - June 22, 2008)

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