The Stillness of the Day

Mediums: oil, canvas.
Location: private collection.

Briefly about the painting:

By the end of the 1960s and early 1970s, the artist completed a number of significant figurative surrealist paintings with interiors in the style of George de Chirico. Maddox used his favorite compositional technique – a perspective that leads away from the horizon. In this work, which depicts a certain corridor with the doors open and even removed from hinges, the view of the sky and the roof of a distant house open up to the viewer. The conventionally depicted women and girl seem to be busy with their everyday affairs. The huge black fly in the lower left corner in the foreground depicted with anatomical precision is out of the general narrative, both in meaning, color and technical solutions.