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London: The Metamorphosis

Anna Keen

As London evolves into a Babylonian-style city of lofty towers, the artist Anna Keen was inspired to paint this metamorphosis, imagining its future townscape. While each new edifice heads to the heavens, the exposed entrails of these vast construction sites strangely resemble ruins. Keen's large canvases are enriched with details stemming from her patient observation, on-the-spot sketches, and voyages around the city by helicopter, boat, road, and on foot. Like the eighteenth-century artist J. M. Gandy, who simultaneously painted London in ruins and in construction, Keen takes us just beneath the surface of the metropolis to where the emotional landscape lurks and shows us where the soul of London is heading. Internationally renowned London-based author and art historian Edward Lucie-Smith, who has followed Keen's painting career since 1995, provides a foreword.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Unicorn
  • Publish Date: Mar 1st, 2020
  • Pages: 144
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 10.70in - 8.90in - 0.90in - 2.30lb
  • EAN: 9781912690596
  • Categories: Techniques - Drawing - General

About the Author

Keen, Anna: - Anna Keen is a British artist who has lived and worked as an artist in Rome, Venice, London, and Amsterdam. She has had over ten solo shows, participated in seventy collective shows, won several prizes, and is represented in important private collections.