Venus (II)
Venus (II)
Category: Paintings
Subject: Early Thoughts
Size: 36 x 48
£5,500. This painting is part of the series entitled 'Early Thoughts'. In preparation for his Fellowship & Residency at the Institute of Advanced Study in early 2009, Chris Gollon began six months before to explore his own general idea and early thoughts on the Fellowship's theme: 'Being Human'.
In his painting Apollo, Gollon started to look at the gods mankind has created, and those who like Apollo got left behind as civilizations changed. In a similar fashion, he has painted Venus 3 times, and one painting also as the end of love or life entitled 'And in the End'.
Venus (II) is a quieter, more serene Venus, and it is as if we have intruded upon her, to see her morning paddle in the ocean, against the dawn's watery sun.
Chris Gollon started to develop a very unique and stylized anatomy in these figures, using a large degree of abstraction, yet retaining some degree of the representational. It imbues these figures with a strange but sculptural 'essence' of Woman or humankind. This technique helped him develop a way of using figures like these to describe or hold ideas, as he prepared for the 'Being Human' Fellowship.
