Maurice Cockrill Divided 84 British Lyrical Geometric Abstract Painting Postcard

ABIZRA240 This is a beautiful undated but modern published official postcard from Londons Royal Academy Of Arts for this great 1999 painting by Maurice Cockrill called Divided with artist details, dates, dimensions etc & Royal Academy Of Arts logo on reverse being the official souvenir from when exhibited unused and mint. 

Executed through a bold abstract oil on cotton duck technique, this minimalist masterpiece utilises a starkly opposing two-part layout balanced by a stark, emotive palette of highly contrasting tones and deep saturated hues that build a striking sense of internal tension. The compositional alignment pits a sharp, straight-edged geometric form extending directly to the canvas borders against a fluid, self-contained organic shape to explore the dualities of structure and spontaneity. Painted in 1999 as the final work in his most expansive series, this monumental abstraction explores conceptual themes of lyrical intervals—intended by the artist to mirror rhythmic silences in music—and was formally accepted in 2000 as his official Diploma Work for the Royal Academy of Arts.