Alexis Preller (South African, 1911-1975) Untitled
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- Alexis Preller is one of South Africa's major and distinguished artists of his generation
- The esteemed art critic, Esme Berman succinctly asserts that in the same manner that his art was unusual and complex, so was his unusual and complex temperament
- Preller's art and his world are multi-dimensional and entwined, his allusive and buoyant spirit of expression permeated the many planes of experience confronted throughout his life
- The images which he collected during his perceptual experiences were later conceptualised and transformed, becoming the pictorial architecture in which the artist conveyed emotional, autobiographical and abstract themes
- Preller's gestural abstract works of the mid to late sixties are known for their vitality and immediacy
- While most of these works reflect the swirling motion of cosmic bodies, here Preller engages the same spiralling form and impasto brushstrokes in an aquatic, futuristic image
- Esmé Berman and Karel Nel emphasise that an important feature of the abstract paintings of this period is that 'they did not begin with a drawing of an image
- The forms are a product of the process'
- Berman and K
- Nel, Alexis Preller, a Visual Biography, (Johannesburg, 2009), pp. 220-223
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