Serpent's Breath

Category

Museums & Galleries Item

Item no

21120

Title

Serpent's Breath

Description

An abstract work of colourful and rhythmical lines. A distinctive and decorative richness swirls across the canvas, with various shapes, intertwined with one another.

Artist / maker

Davie, Alan

Size

122.0 x 152.5cm

Type

Oil painting

Location

City Art Centre

Accession number

CAC1996/4

Alan Davie is one of the best known Scottish born artists, having exhibited all over the world. His paintings are in major art collections throughout Europe and America. A talented jazz musician, his interest in the rhythms and qualities of jazz music can also be discerned in the spontaneity and vibrancy of his symbolist images. Serpent's Breath, is a painting which prompts an emotional rather than purely intellectual response in the viewer. Although influenced by the American abstract expressionists, he has developed his own distinctly decorative and mythical style, drawing on ancient tribal art. Zen Buddhism and Celtic symbolism.

(c) Alan Davie

Purchased (Jean F. Watson Bequest Funds, with grant aid from the National Fund of Aquisitions and the The National Art Collections Fund).

Exhibitions with this item

Other views of this item

Related images