or you’ll give it away.
Peter Doig’s paintings are poetic; magical, mysterious, beautiful
and different. Canoes and boats feature a lot, it's a good choice: figures isolated on the water, going to God knows where,while the interface of water and air introduces the notion of an alternative world.
His six characters in ‘Figures in Red Boat’ are suspended between something horribly grotesque and perfect serenity, the explained and the unexplained, this world and some other. They look lost and it’s interesting that the figure on the left seems to be seated outside the boat. An exotic landscape is suggested in the background, but it might be mist; there is sunlight on the figures in a dim grey setting.
His six characters in ‘Figures in Red Boat’ are suspended between something horribly grotesque and perfect serenity, the explained and the unexplained, this world and some other. They look lost and it’s interesting that the figure on the left seems to be seated outside the boat. An exotic landscape is suggested in the background, but it might be mist; there is sunlight on the figures in a dim grey setting.
Was there a bloody accident, leaving six people somewhere
beyond life? Is this a boat into the next world?
Mirage-like; ambiguous and disturbing, it leaves me wanting
to write about it; but what? It’s quite brilliant.
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