Peter
Doig
The Architect's Home In The Ravine
1991, Oil on Canvas
200 x 275cm |
Plainly
in view but physically inaccessible, Doig half obliterates
The Architect’s Home in the Ravine with an
underbrush as dense as a half-finished Pollock and the scene
becomes foreboding: something out of an Edward Hopper or an
Andrew Wyeth painting. With all the richness of the distant
woods and the stunning architecture to look at, it’s
the twigs which steal the show. Doig’s painting reinvents
the way a picture is meant to be looked at. |