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Description: | Oil on canvas. Jock McFadyen's painting shows a non-descript part of the platform at Aldgate East Underground station in London. The painting is constructed around the Underground logo, placed in the centre of the composition like a target. Above it is a "no smoking" sign; below is a sign indicating the exit for the Whitechapel Art Gallery. To the right is a Tube map, which looks as if it has seen better days. To the left is a poster for an exhibition by Howard Hodgkin (including McFadyen's version of his painting) which was probably the exhibition held at the Hayward Gallery in 1996/7. McFadyen's interest in the scruffier parts of cities is evident here. Although painted in the late 1990s, it is reminiscent of the grittiness of post-war British realism. The prominent inclusion of the written word and recognisable logos are also reminders of 1960s "pop art". | Rights holder: | © Jock McFadyen | Subjects: | cigarette topography railway railway station map advertising poster signage ceramic tiles painting London Underground | Temporal: | 1997 | Source: | Government Art Collection | Creator: | Jock McFadyen | Identifier: | http://www.gac.culture.gov.uk/work.aspx?... | Go to resource |
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