Ceiling painting is no longer in vogue. Yet the doyenne of British abstract art has just unveiled a brilliantly vibrant new work in Rome
does ceiling paintings any longer. “I think it’s because we build towers nowadays,” says Mark Getty, who chaired the board of trustees of the National Gallery in London between 2009 and 2015. “They have lots of floors, none of which have high ceilings except the entrance, which is often very high indeed.”
Unlike Michelangelo in the Sistine Chapel, the 92-year-old Ms Riley did not have to lie on her back on a towering platform to realise her vision. But her project did require the construction of a specially designed scaffold, and the three assistants from her studio who executed the painting certainly found the work demanding.
In Ms Riley’s work, entitled “Verve”, bands of intense colour—turquoise, yellow ochre, red and smoky blue—leap across the barrel-vaulted ceiling of the foyer. The colours are those of her “Egyptian palette”, an array that she first encountered on a visit to the Tombs of the Nobles at Luxor in 1979 and that she has used in many of her works.is appropriate, since the school exists to offer residential scholarships and fellowships to artists on the one hand and scholars on the other.
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