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Copyright the artist | | | Jones, Allen (1937 - ) UK
La Sheer, 1968
Oil on canvas; 183 x 152 cm Pop Art
UID 102-286
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Biography
Allen Jones was born in Southampton in 1937. He studied at Hornsey College of Art, London (1955-59), and the Royal College of Art (1959-60) and returned to Hornsey to take a teacher training course (1960-61).
The early 1960s at the Royal College of Art witnessed the birth of British Pop Art (Pop Art first emerged in America in 1960). Allen Jones was one of a group of students which included Derek Boshier, David Hockney, RB Kitaj and Peter Phillips, who radically changed the face of British art with their precocious, unconventional and irreverent work which was based in popular culture, embracing new subject-matter and new materials. Jones’s preference was for glamour and style, and his aesthetic centred on beautiful women visualised erotically and stereotypically as in glossy magazines, advertisements and cartoon strips. Underpinned with a great mastery of colour and a consummate painting technique, Jones’s work fluctuates between painting and sculpture. On a flat canvas painted forms appear sculptural and his three-dimensional works are painterly. He uses colour to describe form, at times with graphic precision, or conversely with an energy and freedom of gesture which is close to direct expression. Similar developments are evident in his printmaking. Having sustained a long and successful career as an artist, developing his work at a consciously measured pace, Jones has remained central to British art. His work may be seen in many public places including the most fashionable restaurants. He has carried out commissions for the City of London (1987), the British Airport Authority, Heathrow Airport (1991), Chelsea and Westminster Hospital (1992-93) and Sir Terence Conran’s Mezzo Restaurant (1996), among others.
Exhibitions
The Berardo Collection: An Addiction to Freedom Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 28-03-2003 ~ 28-09-2003
Pop 60s Transatlantic Crossing Centro Cultural de Belém (CCB), Portugal 11-09-1997 ~ 17-11-1997
Pop Art & Co. - The Berardo Collection - Sintra Museum of Modern Art (Gunma) The Museum of Modern Art (Gunma), Japan 19-02-2005 ~ 27-03-2005
Pop Art & Co. - The Berardo Collection - Sintra Museum of Modern Art (Hiroshima) Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan 29-05-2005 ~ 10-07-2005
Pop Art & Co. - The Berardo Collection - Sintra Museum of Modern Art (Nagoya) Nagoya City Art Museum, Japan 10-09-2005 ~ 30-10-2005
Pop Art & Co. - The Berardo Collection - Sintra Museum of Modern Art (Osaka) Daimaru Museum, (Umeda, Osaka), Japan 19-01-2005 ~ 06-02-2005
Pop Art & Co. - The Berardo Collection - Sintra Museum of Modern Art (Sapporo) Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art (Sapporo), Japan 26-07-2005 ~ 28-08-2005
Pop Art & Co. - The Berardo Collection - Sintra Museum of Modern Art (Tokyo) The Bunkamura Museum of Art, Japan 06-11-2004 ~ 26-12-2004
Pop Art & Co. - The Berardo Collection - Sintra Museum of Modern Art (Kochi) The Museum of Art (Kochi), Japan 03-04-2005 ~ 22-05-2005
The Berardo Collection Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 17-05-1997 ~ 31-08-1997
Face - a - Face Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 02-10-2001 ~ 30-04-2001
Durante o Fim - Rui Chafes Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 15-10-2000 ~ 14-01-2001
Colecção Berardo - Arte Pop & Ca. Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 19-04-2002 ~ 15-09-2002
Sedução Cinema & Pintura Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 27-06-2006 ~ 31-01-2007
Berardo Museum Museu Colecção Berardo, Portugal 25-06-2007 ~ 16-09-2007
Bibliography
Colecção Berardo - Art Pop & Ca., 2002 Published by Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo ISBN 9729742873
The Berardo Collection: An Addiction to Freedom, 2003 Published by Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo ISBN 9729742898
Pop '60s Transatlantic Crossing, 1997 Published by CCB - Centro Cultural de Belém ISBN 9728176384
Pop Art & Co. - The Berardo Collection - Sintra Museum of Modern Art, 2004 Published by TBS Television, INC.
Sedução Cinema & Pintura, 2006 Published by Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo ISBN 9729903034
The Berardo Collection – Sintra Museum of Modern Art, 1996 Published by Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo ISBN 9729739105
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