In jarring juxtapositions
of contemporary, modernist and retro - futuristic motifs within
classical landscape compositions, Ged Quinn's large scale
paintings combine anachronistic references to art and literature with the strong
traditions of landscape and still - life
painting.
The Netherlandish
tradition of the «world
landscape», a panoramic view from a very high viewpoint, pioneered by Joachim Patinir in the 1520s, once again begins to include a wide expanse
of water in a rather similar way to the
classical paintings, which these artists can not have been aware
of.