Clytemnestra Eight
By
Susan Banks
2022
Clytemnestra Eight is worked in different colours from earlier paintings in the series and so brakes away from its source images while keeping the double headed axe, a “wall paper pattern” and painted pillars.The painting changes in different lighting conditions.
Engendered by curiosity with ancient Painting, this canvas focuses on the myth of Clytemnestra [revenge and catharsis] while formally concerned with the relationships of figure/ground, texture and colour. The pattern references a fragment of painted wall from Thera – pre 1550 BCE. See Warren [1975].
WARREN, Peter, “The Aegean Civilizations”. (The Making of the Past.) Oxford: Elsevier-Phaidon. 1975.
Oil and acrylic on deep canvas.
Susan Banks
Susan Banks
Susan Banks
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