63 Quai Laurenti, Menton
This screenprint is based around a black and white photograph taken in 1959 that was keep in AMA’s father’s wallet before buying a first floor appartment in the building whose address was 63 Quai Laurenti, Menton.
Archive for 'EARLY WORK'
ZAPPA
In the Autumn of 1972, Frank Zappa and the ‘Hot Rats’ orchestra gigged in Europe.
AMA developed this screenprint from a photograph of a collage of deteriorating publicity posters, he took a little later in Amsterdam.
Beachball Girl
The screenprinted image is taken from a postcard found in Menton, south of France.
Its charm, even then, was the dated nature of the picture. This is the first time when AMA worked with repeating or very similar images.
Cyclamen
‘Cyclamen’ 1968
An example of oil painting undertaken when a student at Leicester Polytechnic (Art College)
Composition with a Drumhead
Composition with a Drumhead, made in 1964, is the first piece of artwork produced by AMA not created upon a paper support, viz. a composition in relief made from solid materials.
Somebody Save the Queen
“God bless her Majesty”. That is certainly the offical national sentiment as concerns the British titular head of state.
The arrival of a mail grandchild to the royal family adds an extra and perhaps unpredictable dimension to this lineage.
“Non, Je ne regrette rien”
This old, unwanted gas ring was a work of art in waiting.
In 1964, AMA had not really taken of board what was a ‘Ready Made’.
La Guerre de Troie n’aura pas Lieu
The idea of declaring something that is deemed to have happened as not going to happen seems wonderfully obtuse . . . and fascinating!
Living on the Edge
A very early drawing by AMA shares a remarkably excentric composition with an oil painting produced in Normandy in 1913. The drawing is developed thirty three years later courtesy of digital technology.
Girls I would have liked to have known Better
By adding images taken from a pack of 1950’s ‘glamour’ playing cards to an old art college exercise depicting this one time student’s concept of the female nude, the unearthed canvas became ‘Girls I would have liked to have known Better’. And why not?