VA14_Miller vAF
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Lee <strong>Miller</strong>Below: Bombs Bursting on theCite d’Aleth, St Malo, 1944. Right:Untitled (Exploding Hand), c.1930Ali Smith,Whitbread Prize-winningauthor of The Accidental(Penguin)One of the many things thatmake <strong>Miller</strong> such asuperlative artist is herability, or maybe herdetermination, to reveal thehuman spirit and the spiritthat’s in art as one and thesame. It’s something to dowith her understanding andparticular articulate use ofthe true natures of light anddark and their relation toartifice – whether in a pictureof Picasso lifting a canvas upto the sun, so that thesunlight and the verylightness and movement ofart come together, or thepicture of a silhouettedsinger poised in a bombedoutEuropean cathedral, herwar-tautness emphasised bythe music that’s coming outof her, right there in the darkruins of everything civilised.60V&A Magazine Winter 2007 www.vam.ac.ukV&A Magazine Winter 2007 61
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