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Author:

Gayford, Martin, 1952- writer of introduction. writer of introduction.

Title:

Gillian Ayres / with a foreword by Andrew Marr ; texts by Martin Gayford and David Cleaton-Roberts.

Publisher:

Art Books Publishing Ltd.,

Copyright Date:

2017

Description:

405 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 32 cm

Subject:

Ayres, Gillian,--1930-
Painting, Abstract--England--20th century.
Painting, Abstract--England--21st century.
Prints--England--20th century.
Prints--England--21st century.
Abstract expressionism--England--20th century.
Acrylmalerei

Other Authors:

Cleaton-Roberts, David., writer of introduction.
Ayres, Gillian, 1930- artist. Works. Selections.
Marr, Andrew, writer of foreword.

Contents:

Chronology. David Cleaton-Roberts -- Introduction / Martin Gayford -- Surface tension: Gillian Ayres and printmaking / David Cleaton-Roberts -- Chronology.

Summary:

This beautifully produced volume is the definitive monograph on Gillian Ayres (born 1930), whom journalist Andrew Marr describes as ?probably the finest abstract painter alive in Britain.? Working since the 1950s, Ayres has been celebrated for more than six decades for her use of vibrant color, impasto, tachiste effects and bold forms to create exuberant compositions full of movement and energy. In the 1950s, she applied oils and household paint with rags and brushes; in the 1960s, she created light-filled images in oils or acrylics; in the 1970s, she approached the canvas as an expanse to be filled with a painterly alloverness. Later in that decade and into the 1980s, she began to use thick impasto in carefully designed arrangements; and in recent decades, she has developed simplified organic motifs.

ISBN:

1908970308
9781908970305

OCLC:

(OCoLC)964614752

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)