FROST AND LORCA A Match Made in Colour Dominic Kemp Terry Frost (1915-2003) was born in Leamington Spa, a working class lad who became one of Britain's leading post-war abstract artists. He was elected a Royal Academician in 1992 and knighted in 1998. Federico Garcia Lorca (1898-1936) was born in Fuente Vaqueros, Andalucia. A poet and dramatist, he achieved international recognition. He died, aged just 38, in controversial circumstances at the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. Frost had always been pulled by the lure of poetry, the keenness by which it is able to distil the purity of a moment or intensity of an emotion with a single word or succinct stanza. It was the same thing he strove to achieve in his own work with colour and form. Poetry comes to me when I am alone, maybe in a foreign country sitting at a dining table alone or riding on a train. I think I have been more influenced by poetry than I realise. His first encounter with poetry was Milton and Keats. Federico Garcia Lorca's words came to Frost later, in 1974, around the same time he experienced the Duende at a fish market in Spain. I've been in love with Lorca's poetry for fifteen years. Lorca awakened something in me. I love black and Lorca and the Duende and black envelop me. Images wrestle with me when I read Lorca, he probes the distance between each emotion. The Duende is that visceral boil of passion, an entity of its own that climbs
A suite of 11 etchings with aquatint, some with handcolour, 1989, edition of 75, signed, including an original watercolour with collage. Paper size 56.5 x 38.5 cm.
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