Alicia+vickers+flame

It is art. It is mystery. And like all great flames, it will continue to burn in the dark corners of the cultural imagination for generations to come.

This is the first "Alicia": the subject. In her 1956 masterpiece, Alicia in the Gehenna of Roses , she painted a woman standing calmly inside a furnace, roses growing from her hair as it ignites. The critic Herbert Read famously wrote that Vickers’ flames “do not destroy; they clarify .” alicia+vickers+flame

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