Desolation Row

Category: Paintings

Artist: Chris Gollon

Subject: Landscapes

Year of Work: 2004

Media: mixed media on canvas

Size: 30" x 40"

£3,500. This painting takes its title from Bob Dylan's great ballad Desolation Row and links it to the painting 'Einstein & the Jealous Monk'. the latter being partially inspired by specific lyrics from the ballad.

In this empty landscape the spectator is not allowed the reflection he/she is owed, but that visible from someone else's viewpoint. Perhaps it also points to the references to Einstein's Theory of Relativity, hinted at in 'Einstein & the Jealous Monk' as seen below. This work also has an electric yellow sky, and an unrelenting but strange sun, perhaps almost reminiscent of a Samuel Beckett stage set. Although, Gollon's painting can also be enjoyed simply, as a sparse Arizona-style landscape of vast possibilities.

Available from IAP Fine Art, London. Click here to contact us.

For further information on Chris Gollon's Landscapes:
Please see A Reflection on Landscape

'Einstein & The Jealous Monk'

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