Artist: Alan Davie (Scottish, 1920–2014)
Artwork Title: Yoga Structures No.5
Medium: Paintings / Gouache on Paper
Dimensions: 78cm x 130cm
Description : Alan Davie’s Yoga Structures No. 5 is a vibrant and highly characteristic example of the Scottish artist’s distinctive visual language. Executed in gouache on paper, the work brings together vivid colour, bold geometric forms and an extraordinary vocabulary of symbols and playful, almost hieroglyphic imagery.
Davie was fascinated by mythology, spirituality, ancient cultures and ideas surrounding the subconscious. Here, these influences emerge through a densely constructed composition of abstract figures, organic forms, repeated patterns and mysterious signs, set dramatically against an intense yellow ground.
The work captures the spontaneity and freedom that made Davie one of the most important British abstract painters of the post-war period. Energetic, colourful and immediately recognisable, Yoga Structures No. 5 offers a particularly striking example of Davie’s ability to create his own seemingly instinctive visual world.
Artist: Alan Davie (Scottish, 1920–2014)
Artwork Title: Yoga Structures No.5
Medium: Paintings / Gouache on Paper
Dimensions: 78cm x 130cm
Description : Alan Davie’s Yoga Structures No. 5 is a vibrant and highly characteristic example of the Scottish artist’s distinctive visual language. Executed in gouache on paper, the work brings together vivid colour, bold geometric forms and an extraordinary vocabulary of symbols and playful, almost hieroglyphic imagery.
Davie was fascinated by mythology, spirituality, ancient cultures and ideas surrounding the subconscious. Here, these influences emerge through a densely constructed composition of abstract figures, organic forms, repeated patterns and mysterious signs, set dramatically against an intense yellow ground.
The work captures the spontaneity and freedom that made Davie one of the most important British abstract painters of the post-war period. Energetic, colourful and immediately recognisable, Yoga Structures No. 5 offers a particularly striking example of Davie’s ability to create his own seemingly instinctive visual world.
