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ANOTHER SHOW THAT I DID IN CONJUNCTION WITH ANOTHER GALLERY, this time with the Mathew Flowers Gallery out of London. Once again this show focused on the human body, as all four of these British artists are known for their figurative work. A lot is happening in the English art scene right now, and the art world is showing quite a bit of interest in what is happening over there. So, I felt it would be worth to bring these four capable British figurative painters over here, albeit with their own different painting styles. -JOHN- |
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PETER HOWSONВ’S WORLD STEMS from the street violence of Glasgow and the dark side of the Scottish imagination, pictured with forceful colour and dynamic, exaggerated articulation. The hallmark of John KirbyВ’s haunting work is sensitivity, sexual ambiguity and a painterly reticence that enhances, rather than lessens, the power of his self-expression. Tai-Shan Schierenberg is concerned with the visual poetry of his own world: his family, friends, and the Norfolk landscape that he loves, painted with tactile energy and high aesthetic resolve. Alison Watt is a classicist; she invests her subjects with beauty, painting in a controlled and evocative style that the 18th century portraitists - so well represented in American collections - would have admired. [...]KirbyВ’s paintings often draw, not only their spiritual mood, but their composition itself from religious works of the Italian Renaissance - the same period which is evoked by WattВ’s calm control, behind which passion lies in wait. These painters have their unique voices: but they represent a generation that sees British art as a mainstream movement, not a tributary.1 (1) Robert Heller, April 1996 |
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