- Gina Gilmour
- Rescue, 1985
- oil on canvas; triptych
- 52 x 52 in
- Signature: signed, titled and dated on lower left
Nancy S. Smith, The News & Courier/The Evening Post, on Gina Gilmour
Excerpted from a review, 1985
The “Rescue” paintings are concerned with man’s threatened drowning and imminent rescue. The obvious comparison that leaps to the eye is with William Blake’s transfiguring works. Here are human figures that glow with an unearthly light that suggests saints or a resurrected Christ.
Here are real faces that float as though they are caught in a dream world. Here is the innocence of nature, a simple Eden, or is it paradise? The figures, almost stick-like exude an aura of mysticism.
The painter is dealing with some huge basic themes here – life-death; love-death; death-redemption; fear-faith; nature-savage, nature-healing.
- Collections: South Carolina Arts Commission State Art Collection
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