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BEN NICHOLSON
Jeremy I.ewison
Ben Nicholson (1894-1982) was one of the greatest British artists of the twentieth century, and one of the few to achieve full international recognition. This book is the first to provide an overview of his work and to present a considered assessment of his achievement.
Born into a family of painters, Nicholson rejected his father's Edwardian style of painting. Travelling widely as a young man, he absorbed the influence of the European avant-garde, particularly of Cézanne and the Cubists, and developed his own personal style of abstraction, based on a subtle... Tovább

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BEN NICHOLSON
Jeremy I.ewison
Ben Nicholson (1894-1982) was one of the greatest British artists of the twentieth century, and one of the few to achieve full international recognition. This book is the first to provide an overview of his work and to present a considered assessment of his achievement.
Born into a family of painters, Nicholson rejected his father's Edwardian style of painting. Travelling widely as a young man, he absorbed the influence of the European avant-garde, particularly of Cézanne and the Cubists, and developed his own personal style of abstraction, based on a subtle manipulation of tones, lines and planes, which also had a profound spiritual quality: Nicholson himself declared that painting and religious experience were the same thing. Yet his art was rarely purely abstract, and throughout his work an underlying preoccupation with landscape and still-hfe forms can be traced.
Jeremy Lewison's text examines in detail the development of Nicholson's an and career, and traces carefully the influences that helped form his style. It is the first study to discuss his art in depth and to assess its significance in both British and international terms. For the first time also in a publication on Nicholson, illustrations are presented in a chronological sequence that clarifies the evolution of his style.
From his experimental works of the 1920s to his celebrated relief carvings and later 'baroque' still-hfes, Ben Nicholson was a pioneering and influential figure whose distinctive style combined clarity of vision with a subtle sen.se of rhythm, tone and colour. This superbly ilhistrated volume amply vindicates his claim to be ranked among the major artists of the twentieth century.
Jeremy Lewison was Curator of Kettle's Yard, Cambridge from 1977 to 1983, and is currently Deputy Keeper of the Modern Collection at the Tate Gallery. He has published extensively on Ben Nicholson and other twentieth-century artists. Vissza