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Keywords: cityscape, 1970s art, New York art scene, Giorgio de Chirico, Marc Chagall, Salvador Dali, Paul Delvaux, Frida Kahlo, Surrealism, Metaphysical Painting, Symbolism, Neo-Romanticism.
Mylo Quam, “Jerusalem The Siege, ” April 1976 large scale 66 x 51 3/4 inch oil on canvas painting. The painting presents a surreal interpretation of the endlessly contested and besieged city of Jerusalem, it is populated and filled with oversized, ethereal figures interacting amidst a labyrinthine cityscape. Signed L/L and Titled on Verso
A long-time Woodstock area resident, Mylo Quam was a self-taught painter and draughtsman whose provocative figural work has been compared to Renaissance painters Sandro Botticelli and Hieronymous Bosch, as well as to twentieth-century artists Egon Schiele and Gustav Klimt. Quam was an avid reader who derived inspiration from such varied arenas as Shakespeare, the occult, the Bible, Eastern and Western mythology, politics, and popular culture. "I look at everything, " the artist was quoted as saying in 1990. "I read the comic pages. Anything visual. There’s very little I don’t think is a subject for art." Quam’s paintings were exhibited internationally, as well, notably in a solo exhibition in Haiti– the first by an American artist in that country. In addition, he was one of four artists to represent the United States in La Bienalle di Venezia, Italia of 1986.
Art: 66 x 51 3/4 in. (167.6 x 131.4 cm.)
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