Anton Inglott (original) (raw)

Abstract

The brief course of Anton Inglott's artistic career, the presumption of his orthodox formation, and the conformity of his thematic program has wholly obscured the distinct uniqueness of his spirit. At the age of twenty three, Inglott qualified for a formative course of study at the Accademia in Rome. But his real inspiration came from the metaphysical environment that had swept over Italian art in between the two World wars, that found a natural bond with Inglott's own mysticism in the final years of his life, aggravated by failing health as well as the desperate conditions of wartime Malta - a travailed saga that gave birth to a stirring art.