Trevor Allen - Print Report
Trevor Allen was a printmaker born in 1939 in Portsmouth. This is one of his prints, it is called "Lovers" and was made in 1966, art in the 60's was highly influenced by vibrant colours, flower power, love and peace. Presumably that is where the title "Lovers" came from along with the vibrant blue highlighting the figures.
This print is a reduction colour lino cut, it seems to be quite abstracted and slightly surrealism inspired, the blocks of imagery even remind me of cubism slightly.
There are many different forms in this print, it gives the impression of more of a collage than an image as a whole, there are shapes separating different colours and textures from one another. Each box of colour contains a different texture. The dominant image is a vibrant blue colour which contrasts from the rest of it, that being figures of a couple kissing. In my opinion it looks like the couple are emotional and in love, lying on a bed looking at the stars. But the print is not very obvious due to it's abstracted forms so it may have more than one interpretation. I like this print, it tells a story, at the same time it doesn't make sense and its hard to figure out and that is what makes it interesting.
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