Anthony Amies: Breaking Waves

Anthony Amies' paintings capture a classical conception of landscape painting, abstracting landscapes to convey an idea rather than a realistic image. They reflect England's loss of individual landscapes to industrial and urban proliferation and sprawling housing estates, asserting the importance of painting in art.

Format: Hardback
Length: 192 pages
Publication date: 13 July 2023
Publisher: Hatje Cantz

Anthony Amies' paintings embody a classical vision of painting, showcasing a distinct approach to the art of his time. From the mid-1970s onwards, the British artist embarked on a radical departure from the prevailing artistic conventions, embracing a stylistically peculiar landscape painting that defied convention. These serene and enigmatic works eschew any sense of scandal or controversy. Amies employs the "blot" technique, abstracting landscapes to convey ideas rather than mere representations of reality. In his large-scale drawings and oil paintings, he explores this technique, reducing the landscape to its essence: land and sea. This reduction serves as a reflection on England and the gradual loss of its individual landscapes to the uniformity of industrialization, urban sprawl, and the proliferation of housing estates. Within this unique perspective, Amies asserts the genre of landscape painting as a significant contribution to the broader assertion of painting as an art form. His painterly quality, combined with his dedication to landscape painting, underscores the importance of this English artist in the realm of visual art.

Weight: 1200g
Dimension: 233 x 305 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783775754705