Amor

I have something lovely to share 🙂
Recently, while watching an arts program on tv, I ‘discovered’ an artist that intrigues me. And, unusually, he is a contemporary artist, and an Australian at that. Rick Amor is about 60 years old and lives in Melbourne, I believe.

I was drawn in by the first images I saw. He was doing a series of paintings that were based on a recurring dream, about being on the end of a very long pier in the middle of a sea storm and it disintegrating. The paintings were moody, disquieting and just my thing…

Running – Actually not one of the best examples of the dream
series but the only one I could find.

Then I noticed a lot of his work was very architectural and reminded me quite a lot of de Chirico. Then, not so coincidentally, I noticed he had a de Chirico hung in his studio where he works. The dark moodiness in his work ALSO reminds me of Bocklin, one of my favourites, and in some paintings there is a sniff of Munch. Yes … moody, distant, disquieting … gothic in tone and just my thing (and by gothic I don’t mean as in emo/goths, I mean in the true literary sense of the word). Look carefully and in most paintings you will see a little figure, often running.

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