This post concerns the "Souls grown deep, like the Rivers" exhibition. An exhibition of black artists from the American South Atlanta at the Royal Academy in London. I'm particularly interested in the untitled painting by Pervis Young. The picture is 3 feet by six feet and was painted in 1980. It looks like it has been painted on found wooden packing cases that have been painted and nailed around the edges of the larger painting to painting to make a frame.
The found wood and frame have white ground. There are four figures off-centre to the left, overlooking landscape trees and hills in the middle of the landscape, and two lorries filled with people being carried away. To the left of the four figures is a seascape with two red boats; bearing a mind where this has been painted, which is in Atlanta, USA, in the deep South of America, it seems to me that these four characters are possibly left behind; for they do have faint halos around their head, or maybe they where not taken.is extensively used to make the image. It looks like the artist cut out the character from sticky back plastic. They stuck them onto the dark green boxes and applied white emulsion paint. They either remove the stencils when the paint is wet or return them later and remove them when dry. To top it all, ease of production.
