Spring
Fever, 1991
Oil on Canvas, 45 x 60
Spring Fever depicts a Flemish clarity in its slightly flattened perspective and its porcelain detail. We are as surprised as the boy running along the cliff at the spectacle of a nude woman treed by frenzied hounds. Yet she is replete and calm, gazing directly out and appearing very much in control of what at first seems the end of a tumultuous chase scene. Since the dogs are often symbolic of the masculine, is Maddox suggesting that the aim of hunters of the male predator in particular, is to ultimately corner and transfix the feminine? Or is the woman, mischievous and alluring, taunting her would - be captors?
The
Admonition, 1990
Oil on Canvas, 43 x 57
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