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jackson pollock
Jackson Pollock
Paul Jackson Pollock (January 28, 1912 – August 11, 1956), known as Jackson Pollock, was an influential
American painter and a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement. During his lifetime, Pollock enjoyed
considerable fame and notoriety. He was regarded as a mostly reclusive artist. He had a volatile personality, and
struggled with alcoholism for most of his life. In 1945, he married the artist Lee Krasner, who became an important
influence on his career and on his legacy.
Pollock died at the age of 44 in an alcohol-related car accident. In December 1956, he was given a memorial
retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City, and a larger more comprehensive
exhibition there in 1967. More recently, in 1998 and 1999, his work was honored with large-scale retrospective
exhibitions at MoMA and at The Tate in London.
Jackson Pollock (1912 – 1956), the pioneer of Abstract Expressionism, challenged the artistic tradition of using an
easel and brush by pouring and dripping paint onto canvases. His groundbreaking works had a childlike quality which
belied their stunning complexity and sophistication. Driven by inner torment which compelled him to paint, Pollock
attached large canvases to the floor, densely pouring, dripping and flinging paint embedded with sand or glass onto
them with intense physical movement. Influenced by Picasso, Miró, and the Surrealists, Pollock also revolutionized
a style of painting in which the work has no identifiable parts or point of emphasis, and is painted with a
stream-of-consciousness technique called psychic automatism.
i love this pattern, the swirls and the lines that join them, the colours are spread out and distinguishable, the black & blue is very constant.
new warhol stuff i found
love these warhol prints ive found i havnt seen them anywhere else, love all his stuff, the messages and colours.
pop art uses cultural symbolism in a ironic & comical way often taking the subject out of context and making something that was seen quite serious to be shown manipulated & comical.
ronald searle
Biography
Ronald Searle was born in Cambridge in 1920 and was educated there at the Cambridge School of Art. On the outbreak of the Second World War he left his studies to serve in the Royal Engineers and in 1942 was captured by the Japanese at Singapore, then held by them for three and a half years. He is a hugely successful graphic artist and pictorial satirist. As well as his collaboration with Geoffrey Willans on the Molesworth books and his invention of St Trinians, his work has been the subject of numerous exhibitions across the world and appears in several major American and European collections. He moved to Paris in 1961 and then, in 1975, to a remote village in Haute-Provence, where he still lives.
pencil & watercolour
lithograph
pen & black ink & watcolour
pen & ink
Thursday 3 February 2011
http://www.beauxartslondon.co.uk/
london based artists.
Beaux Arts opened in Cork Street in 1993 and over
the past three decades has developed a reputation for
exhibiting the best of Modern British and contemporary
painters and sculptors. The gallery's focus is evenly
divided between nurturing talent among the current
generation of emerging artists - selected for their
innovative practice as much as the aesthetic qualities
of their work - and showing the work of established
artists such as John Hoyland and John Bellany.
Directors Reg and Patricia Singh opened their first
gallery in St Ives in 1971 representing work by the
St Ives School, before opening Beaux Arts Bath in
1979. Some of these earlier artists' work now forms
the core of the gallery's substantial inventory of
Modern British art. Beaux Arts also represents the
Estates of Terry Frost, Elisabeth Frink and
Lynn Chadwick.
Anthony Frost
magnetic fields
Beyond Cool
2009-10
100 x 100 cm (9.5 x 39.5 ins)
Acrylic, netting, kitchen apron,
ripstop, Hessian scrim, nylon netting
and sacking on canvas
Celestica2010
76 x 122 cm (30 x 48 ins)
Acrylic, Hessian sacking
and scrim, scaffold netting,
sail, night shirt fabric
and sofa fabric on canvas
Beaux Arts opened in Cork Street in 1993 and over
the past three decades has developed a reputation for
exhibiting the best of Modern British and contemporary
painters and sculptors. The gallery's focus is evenly
divided between nurturing talent among the current
generation of emerging artists - selected for their
innovative practice as much as the aesthetic qualities
of their work - and showing the work of established
artists such as John Hoyland and John Bellany.
Directors Reg and Patricia Singh opened their first
gallery in St Ives in 1971 representing work by the
St Ives School, before opening Beaux Arts Bath in
1979. Some of these earlier artists' work now forms
the core of the gallery's substantial inventory of
Modern British art. Beaux Arts also represents the
Estates of Terry Frost, Elisabeth Frink and
Lynn Chadwick.
Anthony Frost
magnetic fields
Beyond Cool2009-10
100 x 100 cm (9.5 x 39.5 ins)
Acrylic, netting, kitchen apron,
ripstop, Hessian scrim, nylon netting
and sacking on canvas
Celestica76 x 122 cm (30 x 48 ins)
Acrylic, Hessian sacking
and scrim, scaffold netting,
sail, night shirt fabric
and sofa fabric on canvas
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