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Sax BerlinMotherhood: Contemporary Surrealist Oil Painting by Sax Berlin2012
2012
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Motherhood is a self portrait of Sax Berlin’s experience as a single father. He had to be mother and father at a time when he was aggrieved after his beautiful wife Susan’s passing when no amount of nourishment could fill the need.
Symbolised as breasts and pacifiers that the hands cannot grasp. Creating the Surrealist style was the only way to portray this amount of anguish. The child’s anguish being expressed by the tongue wrapped around the head and the tonsils exposed. The mother’s anguish augmented with a cross section of the face and the large wailing tongue going back into the structure of the head. The red undergarment depicting the flaming furnace of emotion beneath the cool of her dress. The design came from my experiments with automatic drawing, the means of accessing the subconscious directly. This piece is a portal of fascination.
In contrast, closer inspection will reveal the use of the delicate and many layered Medieval technique of cracked tempera which is a discipline Sax has adapted and evolved to suit his expression for over a decade. It is a technique that will delight connoisseurs. All the colours are hand made from original earth and mineral pigments.
- Creator:Sax Berlin (1953, British)
- Creation Year:2012
- Dimensions:Height: 48 in (121.92 cm)Width: 34 in (86.36 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Brecon, GB
- Reference Number:Seller: wsw371stDibs: LU18914057672
Sax Berlin
We are privileged to sell works on behalf of Sax Berlin. Sax, arguably the finest exponent of 21st Century Classicism, has devoted his life to absorbing the culture of art and architecture in Europe, Asia & North America. He is undoubtedly a genius of our times and one of the great secrets of modern art. When one reviews his oeuvre, 10 distinct & separate styles emerge, displaying Berlin’s mastery of his subject. In fact only Picasso has achieved this height of genius. His students and collectors call him “The Master”. Berlin is a unique artist, using techniques mastered during his studies; ranging from antiquity through the medieval and Renaissance to the present; he creates the visual outcomes he wants and that delight collectors. The paintings Berlin has created in his New York, Greek and Cornish studios are of museum quality and are rarely seen in Art Sales offering a combination of beautiful artworks and investment opportunity. Harvard University refer to him as a Master Artist. The President of the Asia Society on Park Avenue, NYC wrote to Berlin that “your work is beautiful” and Bernard Faure, Professor of Asia Studies at Columbia University wrote “your icons really do have a life of their own”. Sax Berlin is a modern Master Painter in the truest sense of the term and follows in the footsteps of the Great Masters of the past.
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