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In the 1960s Nicholson created a series of more than 100 etchings, mostly still lifes, landscapes, and architectural motifs. With regard to the latter he remarked: “If I am drawing a piece of Greek or Italian architecture I draw the forms, but it is the spirit of the building that I am contemplating, not its stones.” Nicholson’s art has been characterized as linear and lyrical. Lines appear particularly definite in his etchings; their deep blackness and accuracy of execution provides them with an almost physical presence and stabilizes every form. Thus, although the artist sets his architectural motif in motion, rendering details as if the building has fallen apart, the rhythmic quality of the lines keeps the composition balanced. The relationship between the forms and the barely rendered spaces give the work its lyrical ambiguity. BJ
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