Metamorphic Form in Art

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Although he made his name as a realist painter, in recent years the British artist Clive Head has developed an approach to figurative painting in which images resist a single, stable reading. A form that initially appears to represent one thing may, through sustained looking, reveal itself as something quite different. Figures, objects and spatial relationships can shift in meaning as the viewer moves through the image perceptually, so that the experience of looking becomes active, unstable and extended through time. In this talk, Head will discuss how these ideas have emerged within his own …