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Biography
British painter and commercial designer. He studied at the Royal College of Art in London (1954-57) and, between 1959 and 1961, lived in New York on a Harkness scholarship. Here he created paintings which combined the formal qualities of American Abstract painters, such as Mark Rothko and Sam Francis, with references to commercial American culture with its seductive colours and its stirring of desire and fantasy. His interest in the sources of the means of communication and the commercial photography of Irving Penn, Bert Stern and Ben Somoroff are close to the world of Pop Art. In 1972, he produced paintings in which he used manufactured components for tents, such as aluminium tubes, canvas and rope. As in the work of post-Minimalist painters like Robert Ryman and Richard Tuttle, those creations were based on the physical constitution of the painting as a stretched and suspended surface, playing with the relation between colour and form, design and structure.
Exhibitions
Pop 60s Transatlantic Crossing Centro Cultural de Belém (CCB), Portugal 11-09-1997 ~ 17-11-1997
Territórios Singulares na Colecção Berardo Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 22-10-2002 ~ 28-02-2003
Pop Art – An International Perspective Royal Academy of Arts, The, United Kingdom 01-01-1991 ~ 31-12-1991
Bibliography
Colecção Berardo Collection 1917-1999, 2000 Published by CCB - Centro Cultural de Belém ISBN 972817652X
Pop '60s Transatlantic Crossing, 1997 Published by CCB - Centro Cultural de Belém ISBN 9728176384
Pop Art - An International Perspective, 1991 Published by Rizzoli ISBN 0847814769
Richard Smith: The Green Gallery Years 1960-1963, 1992 Published by Richard L. Feigen & Co.
Territórios Singulares na Colecção Berardo, 2002 Published by Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo ISBN 972974288X
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