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Description: | Oil and acrylic on board and hardboard. "Bird Flight No.1" is characteristic of Wilhelmina Barns-Graham's work from the early 1970s. The placement of colours and shapes is clearly defined. She would add titles to her works after finishing them, rather than restricting herself to an idea before starting to paint. Here, without taking the title too illustratively, we could view the blue discs as individuals within a flock, moving across the canvas. They seem to swoop from an ordered formation into chaos, before reforming a compromised sense of composure at the right. Barns-Graham's early paintings were figurative, but she moved more towards abstraction as her career progressed. | Rights holder: | © Wilhelmina Barns-Graham | Subjects: | abstract oval flock (birds) | Temporal: | 1971 | Source: | Government Art Collection | Creator: | Wilhelmina Barns-Graham | Identifier: | http://www.gac.culture.gov.uk/work.aspx?... | Go to resource |
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