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| Maddox
officially joined "The Surrealist Group in England" in 1938. Article from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki Pictures from www.JamesHymanFineArt.com A book about Conroy Maddox was written by Silvano Levy entitled The Scandalous Eye. The Surrealism of Conroy Maddox Liverpool University Press, 2003, 292 pages, ISBN 0853235597 |
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Conroy Maddox 1912 ~ |
| Conroy Maddox discovered surrealism by chance in 1935 and spent the rest of his life exploring its potential through his paintings, collages, photographs, objects and texts. |
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| The Terminus |
| Inspired by artists such as Max Ernst, Oscar Dominguez, and Salvador Dali, he rejected academic painting in favour of techniques that expressed the surrealistic spirit of rebellion. |
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| The Passive Hour |
| The Astronomer |
| 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. |
| The Collector |