Wellington Surrealist Bruce Luxford
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To coincide with the Te Papa Surrealism exhibition an exhibition of recent work by the Wellington Surrealist artist Bruce Luxford accompanied by an online retrospective featuring his most significant paintings, that will be found on the Current Exhibition page of the Gallery website.
In the words of Art Historian Uwe M Schneede, who regarded Surrealism as a historic movement that took place between 1924 and 1939, and within the context of a shattered (both physically and morally) Europe as an aftermath of World War 1, brought forth socio-political ideas as well as a wealth of artistic products.
“Surrealist art has no common style in the traditional sense. The unifying factor is the use of certain methods of approach: automatic notation, the combination of incongruous elements, metamorphosis, and enigma”. (abridged)
That movement still has influence in the visual arts.
"Allowing a freer expression with my own personal interests, my work leans towards and dovetails nicely with what I would term 'figurative surrealism' as a vehicle to express visually what I seek to convey from observations of what takes place around us. Finding inspiration out of topical subject matter has fed the creativity. After all, the world is inclined to manifest in a surreal, contradictory manner, full of conflicting interests and equivocal content."
Bruce Luxford
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