Morning Glory

Notes

"Appollis is a largely self-taught artist who was mentored as a part-time student at the Community Arts Project in the 1980s. His recent works depart radically from the refined draughtsmanship and disciplined compositions of his work in the 1980s. With an exclamatory anti-aesthetic style, Appollis constructs dramatic scenes drawn from his experience of contemporary South African life. He uses these as a vehicle for visual-verbal puns in this painting which he titles Morning Glory, the cockerel and the raised saxophone suggesting the libidinous urges of the morning while the female figure bawdily joins in."¹

¹Michael Stevenson (ed) (2001) Works From A Private Collection of Contemporary South African Art on Permanent Loan to The Chancellor Oppenheimer Library, University of Cape Town, Cape Town: University of Cape Town, unpaginated.

Literature

Michael Stevenson (ed) (2001) Works From A Private Collection of Contemporary South African Art on Permanent Loan to The Chancellor Oppenheimer Library, University of Cape Town, Cape Town: University of Cape Town, illustrated in black and white, unpaginated.

Provenance

Property of a Gentleman.