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Conroy Maddox
Conroy Maddox, (December 27, 1912-January 14,
2005), was a British surrealist painter, collagist, writer and lecturer.
He was born in Ledbury, Herefordshire, and discovered
surrealism in 1935, spending the rest of his life exploring its
potential through his paintings, collages, photographs, objects
and texts. Inspired by artists such as Max Ernst, Oscar Domínguez
and Salvador Dalí, he rejected academic painting in favour
of techniques that expressed the surrealistic spirit of rebellion.
Maddox officially joined 'The Surrealist Group in England' in 1938.
His creations soon began not only to challenge
the conventional view of reality, but also to push pictorial expression
to the limits of consciousness. He was even implicated in both scandal
and controversy when, during World War II, Scotland Yard suspected
him of fifth columnist sabotage and mounted a surprise raid to seize
works thought to contain coded messages to the enemy.
In 1948 he married Nan Burton. They had a daughter
and a son together, but had the marriage dissolved in 1955. He died
in London, aged 92.
The paintings are the excellent portrayal of the events and scenes
that we see around us. The painters are the best cameras of the
world. They reproduce many different types of pictures. They even
draw imaginary pictures that do not exist in this world. We tend
to use both thinned oil paints and dense oil paints. Masterpieces
can be dyed more than once, but each time it may be different from
the existing paintings.h
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