Current Research

This is a 5,000-word article ready for publication which brings to light some new documents pertaining to Giorgio Preca’s studies both in Malta and in Rome. Other documents are about correspondence he had with his mentor Chev. Edward Caruana Dingli and other artists.

This research study presents the hypothesis and then proves it, that it is not entirely true that the birth of a modern aesthetic in Malta was brought through landscape painting, or portraits, still-lifes or even abstract art, but by a strong focus on religious themes.

Pasmore’s presence on the island served as a stimulus to the Maltese artistic community. His teachings were experienced at first hand by many a Maltese artist who studied in England in the late 1950s up to the mid-1960s.