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Score by David Tindle RA

Score by David Tindle RA
Accession Code: wu0571
Title: Score
Date completed:
Medium: Prints
Location Name: Warwick Arts Centre
Location Floor: 0/1
   

© the Artist’s Estate. All Rights Reserved 2019/ Bridgeman Images

This etching is from a series of prints commissioned by the Royal Academy of Arts and Merivale Editions to celebrate the bi-centenary of the death of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Six prominent Royal Academicians responded very differently to the commission and produced a limited edition of 200 prints of their image. Sir Eduardo Paolozzi and John Bellany produced images relating to Queen of the Night from Mozart's opera The Magic Flute. Tom Phillips and Elizabeth Blackadder created images reflecting personal responses to the life and music of the composer. Peter Blake was inspired by the picture of Mozart as child genius and combined the portrait with extracts from manuscripts, documents and other images. David Tindle created an empty, cold music room with a ghostly mirror conceived as a monument to Mozart.