Dimensions: support: 117 x 403 mm Frame: 197 x 487 x 30mm
Copyright: CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED, Photo: Tate
Editor: This is Alfred Wallis’s "String of Boats" from the Tate collection, and I find the scene incredibly peaceful. What resonates most with you in this work? Curator: The string of boats lined up evokes a sense of procession, like offerings on water. Wallis's use of simplified forms and muted colors lends the scene an almost dreamlike quality. It's as if we're viewing a memory, not a precise record. What do the lighthouse symbols represent to you? Editor: I guess it is an invitation to travel. Thank you for highlighting the dreamlike quality and memory aspect. Curator: Indeed, Wallis's art reminds us that images are carriers of emotions, echoing within us long after we view them.
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tate 12 months ago
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tate 12 months ago
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Alfred Wallis was a seaman, ice cream seller and rag-and-bone man before he took up painting in old age. He said he painted ‘what used to be’ and many of his works depict a remembered past.In 1928 he met professional artists Ben Nicholson and Christopher Wood, for whom Wallis’s work represented an instinctive and naïve folk art. As such, Wallis seemed to belong to the tradition of rustic characters common in literature, and represented a link to an apparently timeless English culture. Gallery label, July 2007
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