The Strange Country

Mediums: watercolor, collage, mixed media.
Location: The Tate Modern Gallery (the UK).

Briefly about the painting:

Maddox’s surrealism, in the style of which he started working in 1935, is frankly international. This work, entitled “Strange Country”, generally repeats the space of Rene Magritte’s paintings and offers the viewer irrational events and images. The head of a male figure in a suit replaces a balloon, while the figure of a fighter (clipping from a printed edition) repeats his pose. A huge match supporting a small blue cloud hangs above them. A huge blur appears to replace the sun. It is difficult to combine all this into a common meaningful plot – it is just the stream of the author’s surrealistic consciousness.