Gothic
Item
Artwork Title
Gothic
Artist
Art Form
Painting
Art Medium
Acrylic paint; Canvas
Description
Acrylic on canvas
Artwork Measurement (cm)
84 x 121
Date
1987
Label Information
Eris Silke had no formal art training. Born in Hungary, she lived in Israel from 1950-1970 before moving to South Africa. She draws on gothic romances and the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm to create worlds at once seductive and alluring in their obsessive attention to detail. Her complex, intricate compositions have a nightmarish quality and are often concerned with exploring the chilling subtexts of children's stories. In this painting lavish lace fabrics and highly detailed and intricate images drawn from fairy tales float spectrally in indeterminate space, only to gain a dark focus and edge as they take more concrete form in the lower half of the painting, suggesting infinite layers of horror.
Here lavish textiles and detailed images from fairy tales float spectrally above darker more concrete figures in the lower half of the painting, possibly suggesting infinite layers of horror.
Here lavish textiles and detailed images from fairy tales float spectrally above darker more concrete figures in the lower half of the painting, possibly suggesting infinite layers of horror.
Acquisition Type
Loan
Building
Date Acquired
2001
Rights Holder
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