Still Life with Knife

Artist William Scott (Greenock, Scotland, 1913 - 1989)

Date1956

Mediumink on paper

ClassificationsPaintings And Drawings

DimensionsOverall: Height: 56 cm, Width: 75.9 cm
Frame: Height: 75.9 cm, Width: 96.3 cm

AcquisitionPurchased in 1971 with assistance from the National Fund for Acquisitions.

LocationView by Appointment - Aberdeen Treasure Hub

Object numberABDAG003024

Keywords

Still Life

About MeThis phase of Scott's work came to an end partly as a result of a visit in 1953 to the USA, where he met Pollock, Rothko and Kline. He felt that he belonged to the European tradition of Chardin, Cézanne and Bonnard, and this led to a gradual return to a more representational style. Gradually, however, he moved again towards abstraction.

In the late 1960s he reintroduced objects such as frying pans and saucepans juxtaposed with purely abstract forms; the picture space was kept deliberately flat and the forms carefully spaced in floating rows. In both paintings and prints he sometimes produced variations of almost identical arrangements of forms in completely different colours, continuing to use still-life subjects as the starting-point for otherwise self-sufficient formal relationships.

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Artists can be inspired by everything from the sublime to the mundane. If your kitchen was full of pots and pans, would you grab a pencil to sketch - or a dish towel to clean?!