Jack Shadbolt
Image in a Cedar Slash, 1947
oil on wood board
74.5 x 90.0 cm
BG1851
Image in a Cedar Slash, 1947
oil on wood board
74.5 x 90.0 cm
BG1851
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Jack Shadbolt
Image in a Cedar Slash, 1947 oil on wood board 74.5 x 90.0 cm BG1851 |
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| During the Second World War, Shadbolt worked in the War Records Office in London, England. Everyday, photos of recently opened concentration camps crossed his desk. In the evenings he walked about in bombed out London. In the years after the war, he tried many approaches to an art of horror and outrage.This is a strange picture. The skeletal figure "emerging" from the slash (is it a slash left by logging?) has a prominent large erection. Is the artist suggesting there is a sexual issue involved in logging? | |||||||||||
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