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Winifred Nicholson - Couverture rigide

Andreae, Christopher

 
9780853319726: Winifred Nicholson
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0853319723 ISBN 13 : 9780853319726
Editeur : Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd, 2009

Synopsis

Luminosity, open space and quick movements characterize Winifred Nicholson's paintings. Flowers on windowsills are a favorite subject, not only for their intrinsic beauty, or even their personalities, but above all for their living, translucent color. The ways in which light divides into atmospheric rainbow colors was a matter of childlike wonder to her throughout her long career. This book shows Winifred Nicholson as much more than a 'flower painter'. She managed an unusually creative balance between motherhood and painting, her children becoming subjects - as did her husband, the artist Ben Nicholson. Too often given a cursory mention as his first wife, Winifred warrants independent recognition for the striking originality of her own work. Born in 1893 into the aristocratic Howard family, Winifred Nicholson, experimenting alongside Ben Nicholson, emerged as a ground-breaking painter in the 1920s. In 1930s Paris she investigated abstraction. After the Second World War she continued to paint the world immediately around her - in her native Cumberland and on many painting trips. She painted Greek landscapes as settings for imagined Greek myths. Love of sunlight was joined by a sensitive affection for moonlight. In her final decade she discovered, by using prisms, ways of interweaving the abstractness of spectrum colors with the reality of flower and landscape. This exciting book, which draws on Winifred's extensive correspondence and reproduces many previously unpublished paintings, offers a fresh and rounded view of Winifred Nicholson's life and art.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Luminosity, open space and quick movements characterize Winifred Nicholson's paintings. Flowers on windowsills are a favorite subject, not only for their intrinsic beauty, or even their personalities, but above all for their living, translucent color. The ways in which light divides into atmospheric rainbow colors was a matter of childlike wonder to her throughout her long career. This book shows Winifred Nicholson as much more than a 'flower painter'. She managed an unusually creative balance between motherhood and painting, her children becoming subjects - as did her husband, the artist Ben Nicholson. Too often given a cursory mention as his first wife, Winifred warrants independent recognition for the striking originality of her own work. Born in 1893 into the aristocratic Howard family, Winifred Nicholson, experimenting alongside Ben Nicholson, emerged as a ground-breaking painter in the 1920s. In 1930s Paris she investigated abstraction. After the Second World War she continued to paint the world immediately around her - in her native Cumberland and on many painting trips. She painted Greek landscapes as settings for imagined Greek myths. Love of sunlight was joined by a sensitive affection for moonlight. In her final decade she discovered, by using prisms, ways of interweaving the abstractness of spectrum colors with the reality of flower and landscape. This exciting book, which draws on Winifred's extensive correspondence and reproduces many previously unpublished paintings, offers a fresh and rounded view of Winifred Nicholson's life and art.

Revue de presse

'This monograph on Winifred Nicholson's art is a joy to look at.' ----- Art Quarterly

'This is a delightfully light and airy book, a pleasure to look at... Andreae has written a refreshingly plain and readable narrative of a painting life.' ----- The Art Newspaper

'A very sensitive and warm account, the book reproduces in the full glorious colour they deserve many of her best works.' ----- Arlis

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Éditeur
Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
Date d'édition
2009
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0853319723
ISBN 13 
9780853319726
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
200
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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