Classical Player — Silverbourne | Lyre Figure Study Print

Classical "Player" is a figure study art print from the Silverbourne collection by Alexander Paul Burton, published under the imprint Tremolo A Tiempo. Drawn in Faber-Castell pencil and Japanese sumi ink, the piece leans its subject against a stone plinth, one foot crossed over the other, boxer briefs low on the hips, a laurel crown resting slightly askew at the brow. In his right hand he holds a lyre. The quotation marks around the title do the rest of the work. The plate is Silverbourne's small argument that the archetype has been around a very long time. The lyre-player of the classical world (Apollo tuning up, Orpheus about to make trouble) is the same figure who leans against the same wall two thousand years later with a slightly different instrument and the same expression. The crimson wash pooling around his feet reads as stage light, as spilled wine, as whatever else you want it to read as. The plate does not choose for you. A considered piece for readers, collectors of literary art, figure drawing enthusiasts, classicists with a sense of humour, and anyone drawn to work that carries a narrative inside the image. Printed on demand by Gelato on museum-grade paper, produced fresh to order and shipped from a facility near you.