Gareth Edwards British, b. 1960
The Falling is in the Fruit. (Knowledge and Science come together) , 2020
Oil on canvas
105 x 110 cm
Jill George Gallery and Gareth Edwards
The central image in this painting is a Tree of Knowledge, the mythical apple tree. Two apple trees bear important fruit in the Human History, the poetical myth of Eve's...
The central image in this painting is a Tree of Knowledge, the mythical apple tree. Two apple trees bear important fruit in the Human History, the poetical myth of Eve's Temptation and Sir Isaac Newton's from which once a falling apple was observed drew a conclusion about Gravity. Both pivotal fruits, both about Falling. One leads to poetry and myth, one leads to science and knowledge.
This painting plays a gentle homage to both areas of Human Knowledge by conflating them in one image. The Fruit is in the Falling, everything is revealed once the apple falls.
Provenance
Jill George Gallery
Exhibitions
London Art Fair, ART2021, LAF:Edit, Online, Jill George Gallery, London