| Paintings by John
Woodwark
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| William and Janey Morris. You can read this picture as a simple
interior decorator's mistake, a mordant comment on the Arts and Crafts
movement vs. 20th Century mass production, or a dig at the
Morris's domestic arrangements.
The two miniatures represent cyanotypes, a printing process invented in the middle of the 19th Century for reproducing engineering drawings (hence the word 'blueprint'), but also widely used for many years as a printing-off process for photographs. Budding numerologists will note that there are 42 Morris Minors in this picture. Before crying anachronism, recollect that the number features in Lewis Carroll's 1867 narrative poem, The Hunting of the Snark. Oil on board, 8" x 17". | |