Colin Self - Power & Beauty No.4 Cockerel
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Colin Self - Power & Beauty No.4 Cockerel British Pop Art Rare early print in perfect condition - signed45/75 edition 1968Framed 105cm x 67cm In the Tate Gallery Collection Colin Self was born in Norwich in Norfolk, England in 1941. Self’s early years were spent there in a community of 1930s bungalows. Nearby was the RAF Horsham St Faith, a Royal Air Force station that operated through the war and until the early 1960s. The impact of wartime on Self’s childhood is exemplified by his own associations of that time in his life with “concrete block anti-German defences…Liberators, Mosquitos, Spitfires, Hurricanes and Lockheed Lightnings…” Even more revealing is that he has described his early life with the two words: “Idyll and War.”He first studied art at Norwich Art School. While there he was most heavily influenced by Michael Andrews, a peer and painter who was also from Norwich. At this time Self began to develop his intense interest and engagement with the ongoing Cold War. In particular he was “profoundly affected” by a television debate between the English pacifist Bertrand Russell, the former director of the Manhattan Project, J. Robert Oppenheimer, and Lady Dulles. Russell predicted during the program that mankind would be annihilated by Nuclear Armageddon within ten years time. This frightened Self who has described his state
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