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28 | PAUL REIDTheseus and the Minotaur I, oil on canvas, 107 x 132 cms
MYTHOLOGIES | 29The beast sleeps as the hero hauls himself from the well,his assassin’s knife clenched between his teeth. The lightsource is the sun and comes directly from the left andthe viewpoint is from above, the viewer floating abovethe action, close enough to smell the blood, sweat andfear. The composition is in perfect balance and tension:the claustrophobia of the moment before violence. It iscinematic: the still from a movie that might have beenselected for the poster; everything is said in one shot.Reid’s technique is as brilliant as ever but this paintinghas come quickly for him. No revisions or trial preparationsin other media were undertaken. It has come completeand awful; glimpsed and made permanent in every detail.
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Page 61: 23 Stranded, Island of Circe, Study
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