Fred Schimmel; South African 1928-2009; Figures
Provenance :
Exhibited : SMAC Art Gallery, Stellenbosch, Fred Schimmel at 80, 27 November 2008 to 25 January 2009.
Literature : Marelize van Zyl (ed) (2008) Fred Schimmel: Retrospective, Stellenbosch: SMAC Art Publishing, illustrated on page 69.
Notes : During the 70s Schimmel produced a substantial body of figurative paintings in acrylic. "Rather than the grid-like, organisational line of the serigraph landscapes, these paintings employ the same enveloping line found in the Hard-Edge landscapes from the sixties. The bodies and faces of the characters in these paintings are, like the elliptical caverns in the prints, often described in rolling contours that overlap and intersect. Several portraits, in which faces and features have been cut through and distorted by sharp lines scraped into the picture's surface, have the qualities of blind contour drawings. It is as though the artist has drawn his figures without regard for the sanctity of faces, features and bodily proportions, in fact, some figures have been morphed into plant-like organisms."1 1. Marelize van Zyl (ed) (2008) Fred Schimmel: Retrospective, Stellenbosch: SMAC Art Publishing, page 36.
Condition_report :
