A Light on the Styx, Decr 1939
From August-December 2019 the Pictures of the Month followed a pivotal period of Edwin's career 80 years after it happened. He moved into his first studio in August 1939 and immediately started creating works inspired by Surrealism.
In December he painted A Light on the Styx. Here's how Helen Scott describes it in her book Edwin G. Lucas: An Individual Eye:
"Many of Lucas’s Surrealist works defy straightforward interpretation. Here, a river weaves through a landscape of lush trees and grey, geometric structures. A series of hunched, semi-human forms are positioned along the nearer bank. In classical Greek mythology, the river Styx separated the realm of the living from the underworld. Even within this context, the symbolism of the abstract structures on the far side remains unclear."
In December he painted A Light on the Styx. Here's how Helen Scott describes it in her book Edwin G. Lucas: An Individual Eye:
"Many of Lucas’s Surrealist works defy straightforward interpretation. Here, a river weaves through a landscape of lush trees and grey, geometric structures. A series of hunched, semi-human forms are positioned along the nearer bank. In classical Greek mythology, the river Styx separated the realm of the living from the underworld. Even within this context, the symbolism of the abstract structures on the far side remains unclear."
