#Winston churchill painting by graham sutherland 1954 series
While planning this picture, Sutherland became fascinated by thorn-bushes, whose thorns reminded him of the crucifixion of Christ, and he painted a series of "Thorn Trees" and "Thorn Heads" which paraphrased the crucifixion. In this work Christ's body, suspended in torment against a purple background, becomes a powerful image of physical and spiritual suffering. Matthew's Church, Northampton, a picture he executed two years later. Sutherland's work began to take a new turn when he received a commission in 1944 to paint a Crucifixion for St. These were executed in watercolor and gouache, which he used extensively for his smaller works and studies for oil paintings. However, by 1944 he began to use bright colors again in a series of imaginary landscapes, including a very distinctive range of orange, mustard, and pink. Most of these works were predominantly black. He made a series of remarkable paintings of bombed buildings which vividly captured the drama and tragedy of the devastation, as well as studies of iron foundries and coal mines. Objects such as the roots of an uprooted tree seen in violent foreshortening were given a mysterious, ominous, monster-like character, the impact being enhanced by strong, unrealistic colors.ĭuring part of World War II Sutherland was an official war artist. This was also the period when surrealism made a big impact in England, and he combined surrealist elements with the romantic landscape tradition. In 1935-1936 Sutherland found himself as a painter, partly under the influence of the landscape of Pembrokeshire. He studied at Goldsmiths' College of Art, London, specializing in engraving, and worked until 1930 as an engraver of landscape subjects in the tradition of Samuel Palmer. Graham Sutherland was born in London on Aug. Graham Sutherland (1903-1980), the leading painter of the English neoromantic movement, was noted for his imaginative pictures based on landscape and plant forms and for his portraits.
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