Hamlet

Carel Weight (1908 - 1997)

Harris Museum & Art Gallery

1965

For Weight, fear and confusion are everywhere. He uses disturbed figures in suburban settings painted with a chilling detachment to convey the terrors with which he is haunted. Where the story is available, as here in the graveyard scene in Hamlet, Weight is not concerned with mere representation. While portraying the horror of the scene he uses the narrative to convey Man's ultimate loneliness.

• Medium: oil on canvas
• Dimensions: 206 x 206 cm
• ArtFunded in: 1993
• Presented by Carel Weight through The Art Fund

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Carel Weight

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