Castle Green

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'Castle Green' is one of a series of works that Tess Jaray painted after she visited Italy, immediately following her time as a student at the Slade. Italian architecture had a great impact on her art, and the rectangular shapes in this painting are reminiscent of doors in Italian Renaissance architecture, particularly of buildings in Florence such as the church of Santa Maria Novella. They also resemble the turrets of castles alluded to in the title. Jaray's work has been allied with Post-Painterly Abstraction, an essentially American movement which has had considerable influence in Britain. She believes that one paints to find out and explore possibilities, rather than to express oneself, and in this painting she was investigating the effects of space and colour.

Government Art Collection

London

Title

Castle Green

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 182.7 x W 153 cm

Accession number

9435

Acquisition method

purchased from the artist, 1971

Work type

Painting

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