Hello my friends…………..maybe you noticed this is only posted out to a few people. If you are reading this it means you are one of the people who posted an ‘’Art Sunday’’ blog earlier today. Eight of us posted this week and I can’t help noticing that eight is more than we have had for a while. Which left me wondering…………….do you think the time has come to re-launch Art Sunday?, to do it properly as we used to?, to leave links for each other to make sure we all get to see each others posts? If you’d rather not that’s ok…………..I just felt the time has come to at least ask.
William
Crozier (born 1930 in Glasgow) is a contemporary Irish-Scots still-life
and landscape artist currently based in Hampshire, UK and West Cork in
Ireland
Crozier was born in Glasgow in 1930 of Irish parents and educated at the Glasgow School of Art between 1949 and 1953.
Crozier was born in Glasgow in 1930 of Irish parents and educated at the Glasgow School of Art between 1949 and 1953.
On
graduating he spent time in Paris and Dublin before settling in London
where he quickly gained a reputation as the 1950s equivalent of a Young
British Artist through the early success and notoriety of his
exhibitions of assemblages and paintings at the ICA, Drian and the
Arthur Tooth galleries, with whom he had a long association.
Profoundly
affected by post-war existential philosophy, Crozier allied himself and
his work consciously with contemporary European art throughout the
1950s and 1960s, rather than with the New York abstractionists, who were
more fashionable in the UK at the time.
He
was also part of the artistic and literary world of 1950s Soho, a close
associate of ‘the Roberts’, Colquhoun and MacBryde, John Minton and
William Scott, and part of the expatriate middle-European and Irish
intellectual circles in London of the time.
Crozier
spent 1963 in southern Spain with the Irish poet Anthony Cronin; this
proved pivotal to Crozier's development as an artist. On his return to
the UK, he began a series of skeletal paintings which anticipated the
‘New Expressionist’ German painters of the 1980s, and which were
influenced by Crozier's visits to Auschwitz and Belsen
Based in London throughout the 1960s and 1970s, Crozier exhibited his works in London, Glasgow, Dublin and all over Europe.
As
many artists of the 1960s did, Crozier combined painting with teaching,
first at Bath Academy of Art, (with Howard Hodgkin, Gillian Ayres and
Terry Frost), then at the Central School of Art (with William Turnbull
and Cecil Collins), at the Studio School in New York and finally at
Winchester School of Art where he led a strong centre for painting based
on the European tradition.
When he ceased teaching in the 1980s, Crozier’s painting blossomed with a new freedom and confidence.
Then
as now, his abstract landscapes and still life painting use sumptuous
colour to convey an emotional intensity and he is endlessly concerned
with the challenge of creating a new language in figurative painting. In
2006 the artist is working with undiminished vigour.
Crozier’s
paintings are now in demand at exhibition and at auction. He has
represented the UK and Ireland overseas, and has been awarded the Premio
Lissone in Milan and the Oireachtas Gold medal for Painting in Dublin
in 1994. In 1991 the Crawford Art Gallery Cork and the Royal Hibernian
Academy curated a retrospective of his work.
He
was elected to Aosdana in 1992 and is an honorary member of the Royal
Hibernian Academy. In 2005 Crozier celebrated his 75th birthday with a
major exhibition in Cork to celebrate the European Capital of Culture.
Here
Crozier exhibited a selection of his drawing work, providing the first
opportunity to see that the master of colour was also an inventive
artist in black and white.
asolotraveler wrote on Sep 21, '09
THESE ARE DIFFERENT - I LIKE DIFFERENT
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greenwytch wrote on Sep 21, '09
i
like this art! i definitely sense influences of gaugin and van gough.
it would be fun to try the art sunday thing again.......and i wish i
could make the commitment to host it, but my sundays seem to be quite
busy these days!. i would definitely be willing to make an honest
effort to participate in it, though. ; D
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philsgal7759 wrote on Sep 20, '09
I don't know how it will go and I must admit at times the volume of folks on the tours get get unwieldy
but yes I do miss it and it's worth a try getting it up again. I really should get back to Poetry Wednesday too haven't done that in awhile |
forgetmenot525 wrote on Sep 20, '09
no............that's
the point, it is no longer hosted and there is no longer a central
point for every one to leave links, sorry i didn't realise you don't
remember the way it used to be. It used to be run along similar lines to
Poetry wednesday except that we often went with a theme.............I
just wanted to know how every one fells about ''re-lainching'' it more
or less as it used to be
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forgetmenot525 wrote on Sep 20, '09
there
is nothing uneducated about your eye, no one likes every thing and he's
not one of my top artists,,but I do like his colours and some of the
shapes.
As for art Sunday.................we'll wait and see what sort of response we get...............guess I just started wondering about it today because more people than usual participated and I thought if some of us could drift on in this hap hazard way for almost a year then maybe there would be a lot of support for a return to the way things were. |
Sorry
to say.....as acclaimed as he is.....I don't see it. That is my
uneducated eye speaking. This genre is a mystery to me. Nice colors
though. I had been wondering as well about the continuation of art
sunday...to have it once again as it was would be nice. I was far more
disiplined about it back then....(and probably spelled better as well).
I'm all for it as long as you can gather enough brave souls for these
showings Cheers my friend.
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