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Free Painters And Sculptors
Free Painters and Sculptors (FPS) is an artist-led organisation based in London, England, which regularly exhibits every year. It played a pivotal role in the establishment of abstract art in the 1950s and 1960s. History Background FPS was founded in 1952 by a number of members of the ICA who wanted to create their own painting group. Known initially as 'Painters Group from the ICA', the idea of freedom was one of the group's core beliefs. In the aftermath of World War II it was vital for the group to be able to stand for principles of artistic freedom and each artist was free to express themselves however they chose. Artists with a 'modern approach' were welcomed, generally falling into abstract or figurative camps. Formative Years The first exhibition was held at the end of 1953 in the Three Arts Centre, Great Cumberland Place and was opened by art critic John Berger. Twenty six artists exhibited. Soon after this the group was renamed the 'Free Painters Group' and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
London
London is the capital and List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a major settlement for two millennia. The City of London, its ancient core and financial centre, was founded by the Roman Empire, Romans as ''Londinium'' and retains its medieval boundaries.See also: Independent city#National capitals, Independent city § National capitals The City of Westminster, to the west of the City of London, has for centuries hosted the national Government of the United Kingdom, government and Parliament of the United Kingdom, parliament. Since the 19th century, the name "London" has also referred to the metropolis around this core, historically split between the Counties of England, counties of Middlesex, Essex, Surrey, Kent, and Hertfordshire, which largely comprises Greater London ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Pelling (artist)
John Pelling (born 1930) was a British artist and clergyman, and is an Associate of the Royal College of Art, known for works on large canvases, abstract works, and paintings of religious imagery. Personal life Pelling was born in Hove, East Sussex, in 1930, and educated at Brighton Grammar School. He went on to study at the Royal College of Art in London from 1951 to 1955, studying under John Minton and Francis Bacon amongst others. He is married to the 1950s model Zoe Newton (now Zoe Pelling), who is also an artist, and was the most photographed and highly paid model in Britain of her time, appearing on the front of popular magazines such as ''Picturegoer''. She appeared on television and in the Dairy Council advertisements as the "drinka pinta milka day" girl. She was previously married to billionaire businessman David Barclay. Pelling is one of the judges of the annual International Firework Competition in Monte Carlo. He has worked from studios in Kensington (west Lond ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Artist Groups And Collectives
British may refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * British people, nationals or natives of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories, and Crown Dependencies. ** Britishness, the British identity and common culture * British English, the English language as spoken and written in the United Kingdom or, more broadly, throughout the British Isles * Celtic Britons, an ancient ethno-linguistic group * Brittonic languages, a branch of the Insular Celtic language family (formerly called British) ** Common Brittonic, an ancient language Other uses *''Brit(ish)'', a 2018 memoir by Afua Hirsch *People or things associated with: ** Great Britain, an island ** United Kingdom, a sovereign state ** Kingdom of Great Britain (1707–1800) ** United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1801–1922) See also * Terminology of the British Isles * Alternative names for the British * English (other) * Britannic (other) * British Isles * Brit (other) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arts In London
The arts are a very wide range of human practices of creative expression, storytelling and cultural participation. They encompass multiple diverse and plural modes of thinking, doing and being, in an extremely broad range of media. Both highly dynamic and a characteristically constant feature of human life, they have developed into innovative, stylized and sometimes intricate forms. This is often achieved through sustained and deliberate study, training and/or theorizing within a particular tradition, across generations and even between civilizations. The arts are a vehicle through which human beings cultivate distinct social, cultural and individual identities, while transmitting values, impressions, judgments, ideas, visions, spiritual meanings, patterns of life and experiences across time and space. Prominent examples of the arts include: * visual arts (including architecture, ceramics, drawing, filmmaking, painting, photography, and sculpting), * literary arts (includi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cultural Organisations Based In London
Culture () is an umbrella term which encompasses the social behavior, institutions, and norms found in human societies, as well as the knowledge, beliefs, arts, laws, customs, capabilities, and habits of the individuals in these groups.Tylor, Edward. (1871). Primitive Culture. Vol 1. New York: J.P. Putnam's Son Culture is often originated from or attributed to a specific region or location. Humans acquire culture through the learning processes of enculturation and socialization, which is shown by the diversity of cultures across societies. A cultural norm codifies acceptable conduct in society; it serves as a guideline for behavior, dress, language, and demeanor in a situation, which serves as a template for expectations in a social group. Accepting only a monoculture in a social group can bear risks, just as a single species can wither in the face of environmental change, for lack of functional responses to the change. Thus in military culture, valor is counted a typical ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Organizations Established In 1952
An organization or organisation (Commonwealth English; see spelling differences), is an entity—such as a company, an institution, or an association—comprising one or more people and having a particular purpose. The word is derived from the Greek word ''organon'', which means tool or instrument, musical instrument, and organ. Types There are a variety of legal types of organizations, including corporations, governments, non-governmental organizations, political organizations, international organizations, armed forces, charities, not-for-profit corporations, partnerships, cooperatives, and educational institutions, etc. A hybrid organization is a body that operates in both the public sector and the private sector simultaneously, fulfilling public duties and developing commercial market activities. A voluntary association is an organization consisting of volunteers. Such organizations may be able to operate without legal formalities, depending on jurisdiction, incl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Witold Gracjan Kawalec
Witold Gracjan Kawalec (17 November 1922 – 24 December 2003) was a Polish-born sculptor, who worked mainly in England. Early life He was born in Wilno, Poland in 1922. Working for the Polish resistance movement during World War II, he was captured by Russian soldiers. Later he joined a Polish Army unit in Palestine. He took part in the bitter fighting at Tobruk during the North Africa campaign. From North Africa he joined the Royal Air Force in England. In 1942 he was accepted for training in the Royal Air Force. While serving near Nottingham he married a fellow Pole in the WRAF, Danuta Banszel. He was then posted to No. 307 Polish Night Fighter Squadron at Exeter. Sculpture After the war he moved to Nottingham and continued his studies in sculpture at Nottingham College of Art. In 1953 he opened his first studio and produced much of his work in alabaster. The themes of his abstract forms were influenced by his experiences during World War II. In 1959 he had a piece selecte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Violet Fuller
Violet Fuller (26 July 1920 – 2006) was a British artist who painted in oils and watercolours and was a prolific exhibitor. Biography Born in Tottenham in north London, Fuller attended the Hornsey School of Art from 1937 to 1940 and then the Stroud School of Art from 1942 to 1944. Beginning in 1958, Fuller had a series of solo exhibitions at the Woodstock Gallery in London, with subsequent shows in 1961, 1963 and 1967. Other solo exhibitions of her work were held at the Loggia Gallery and the Old Bakehouse Gallery in Sevenoaks. Fuller was a regular exhibitor in group shows at the Royal Academy in London, with the Royal Society of British Artists, the New English Art Club, the Women's International Art Club and the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours. She was a founding member, and later, a Fellow of the Society of Free Painters and Sculptors. London street scenes regularly featured in her paintings and both the London Boroughs of Enfield and Haringey The London ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roy Turner Durrant
Roy Turner Durrant (4 October 1925 – 1998) was a 20th-century English abstract artist. He was born in Lavenham, Suffolk, England on 4 October 1925. He had a love of drawing from an early age which continued as a driving force throughout his life. His lifelong motto (which he inscribed on the fly leaf of many a volume of his childhood library) was "ars longa, vita brevis" "art is never ending, life is short" which he may have first seen in the bell tower of Lavenham Church, and following his wish was also carved on his tombstone in Lavenham cemetery. He had a picture exhibited at Bury St Edmunds while still at school and his drawings were currency for him at school when he swapped them with class mates for cigarette cards and other items. He had his first One Man Exhibition in 1948 at the Guildhall, Lavenham. He left school at 14 years of age but continued to spend his spare time drawing and painting. He worked in a local electrical shop and during the war Durrant joine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roderic Barrett
Roderic Barrett (1920–2000) was a British painter from Colchester, England. Life At fifteen years old, Roderic Barrett was accepted into the Central School of Art and Design in London. He studied there until 1940, specializing in wood engraving under John Farleigh but also receiving tuition from William Roberts and Bernard Meninsky. Barrett gradually switched from engravings to oil paintings in his later life. Barrett became a conscientious objector in World War II, and he returned to Colchester, and in 1947, began teaching part-time at the Central School. Barrett, a lifelong Socialist and pacifist, also objected to military service during the Second World War. After 21 years, he moved on to tutor at the Royal Academy School, where he remained until his retirement in 1996. Barrett was long associated with the Colchester Art Society, succeeding Cedric Morris as its president, having been a founder member in 1946, along with Henry Collins, Lett Haines, John Nash and Cedr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Otway McCannell
Otway McCannell FRSA RBA (1883 – 1969), also known as William Otway McCannell and W. Otway Cannell, was a British painter, illustrator, writer and Principal of Farnham School of Art. Biography McCannell was born in the seaside resort of New Brighton in Wallasey, Cheshire, England on 26 December 1883. After attending Nelson College in New Zealand in 1895, in 1905 he won an art scholarship at the Royal College of Art in London. In the late 1920s McCannell moved to Farnham, England and was Principal of Farnham School of Art (later merged with Guildford School of Art and becoming the West Surrey College of Art and Design). His students included Geoffrey Burnand. McCannell retired in 1948. McCannell frequently exhibited at the Royal Academy and other European centres. He exhibited ''The Devil's Chessboard'' at the Royal Academy in 1924. He was a Fellow of Free Painters and Sculptors, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a member of the Royal Society of British Artists ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leslie Marr
Sir Leslie Lynn Marr of Sunderland, 2nd Baronet (14 August 1922 – 4 May 2021) was a British landscape artist, painter and racing driver. Early life, education and military service Marr was born in Durham, England, the son of Lieutenant Colonel and brevet Colonel John Lynn Marr (1877–1931), OBE, TD, of the Royal Garrison Artillery, director of two shipbuilding firms and of the Sunderland Forge and Engineering Company, and Amelia Rachel (1884–1971; known as "May"), daughter of Robert Thompson, of Over Dinsdale Hall, County Durham, a shipbuilder.Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 107th edition, vol. 2, ed. Charles Mosley, Burke's Peerage Ltd, 2003, p. 2629 He was educated at Shrewsbury School and Pembroke College, Cambridge. In 1932, at the age of ten, due to his father's death the previous year he inherited the baronetcy held by his grandfather, shipbuilder Sir James Marr, 1st Baronet, though he did not use the title. He studied engineering at Cambridge Uni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
