Charles Blackman 'Nightfall' abstract art birds represent care

birds represent care

but may show some small signs of surrounding wear to paper

believed to be a portrait of the artist’s second wife

producing hyper realistic images that fuse the erotic and the 20th century movement: Magic Realism

larger paintings from the London period

Charles Blackman 'Nightfall' abstract art birds represent careLife is comprised of transitions days dissolve into nights, consciousness into sleep and childhood into adolescence. In 'Nightfall', Charles Blackman distills this phenomena in a girl as she drifts through space. Like his famed Schoolgirl and Alice series, 'Nightfall' considers the preciousness of youth. It also speaks to something more profound. Created in London when Charles was thirty five, Nightfall grapples with his wife Barbara Blackmans