Screenprint on paper
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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/ian-hamilton-finlay-1093" aria-label="More by Ian Hamilton Finlay" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Ian Hamilton Finlay</a>
Homage to Modern Art collaboration with Jim Nicholson
Purchased 1974
boat, sailing
flag - non-specific
inscriptions
objects
religious and ceremonial
sea
seascapes and coasts
society
symbols and personifications
title of work
transport: water
<p>This work combines Finlay’s fondness for maritime imagery with his mischievously ironic references to art history. The abstract motif, suggestive of modern art, is incorporated into an image that resembles an old-fashioned illustration and therefore the opposite of everything popularly associated with ‘modern art’. At the same time, the lone boat suggests something of the heroic spirit of the pioneering modernist artist.</p><p><em>Gallery label, July 2008</em></p>
paper print screenprint
Homage to Modern Art [collaboration with Jim Nicholson]
image: 762 × 538 mm
Purchased 1974
<p>This work combines Finlay’s fondness for maritime imagery with his mischievously ironic references to art history. The <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/a/abstract-art" title="Glossary definition for 'Abstract art'"><span>abstract</span></a> motif, suggestive of <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/m/modernism" title="Glossary definition for 'Modernism'"><span>modern art</span></a>, is incorporated into an image that resembles an old-fashioned illustration and therefore the opposite of everything popularly associated with ‘modern art’. At the same time, the lone boat suggests something of the heroic spirit of the pioneering modernist artist.</p>

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boat, sailing flag - non-specific inscriptions objects religious and ceremonial sea seascapes and coasts society symbols and personifications title of work transport: water