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ARTIST Bl/Y1+2 Ceri Richards 1903-1971
ARTIST Bl/Y1+2 Ceri Richards 1903-1971 Print E-mail

 Circular Bases 1961                                     Still life with Music 1933   

 

 Clair de Lune 1967

 

Year 1 and 2 are studying some works by Ceri Richards.  We've used chalk pastels to recreate similar works to Circular Bases, and oil pastels when studying Still life with Music.

Mae Bl 1 a 2 yn astudio gwaith y Cymro Ceri Richards.  Hyd yn hyn rydym wedi defnyddio sialc i greu gwaith tebyg i Circular Bases a pasteli olew i ail-greu Still life with Music.

 

Welsh painter, printmaker and stage designer. He studied at Swansea School of Art from 1921 to 1924 and at the Royal College of Art from 1924 to 1927. Having drawn images on sculptural themes from c. 1931, Richards exhibited a free-standing Object (see 1981 exh. cat., p. 23) with the Surrealist group at the London Gallery in 1936. After election to the London Group (1937), he began exhibiting relief-constructions, for example Two Females (1937–8; London, Tate).
From 1940 to 1944 Richards ran the painting department at Cardiff School of Art; he was also commissioned by the Ministry of Information to make drawings of South Wales tin-plate workers. A commission to illustrate the poem The force that through the green fuse (1933) by Dylan Thomas for Poetry London (xi/3, 1947) led to paintings and lithographs related to Thomas's writings and to the work of other poets such as Vernon Watkins. His commissions as a stage designer included the décor and costumes for Lennox Berkeley's opera Ruth (1956) and for Benjamin Britten's Noyes Fludde (1958). Richards's other design projects included the tabernacle, reredos and two stained-glass windows for the Metropolitan Cathedral, Liverpool (consecrated 1967).

Glossary


A relief is a wall-mounted sculpture in which the three-dimensional elements are raised from a flat base. Any three-dimensional element attached to a basically flat wall mounted work of art is said to be in relief or a relief element.

Lithography  
A printing process based on the antipathy of grease and water. The image is applied to a grained surface (traditionally stone but now usually aluminium) using a greasy medium: greasy ink (tusche), crayon, pencils, lacquer, or synthetic materials. Photochemical or transfer processes can be used. A solution of gum arabic and nitric acid is then applied over the surface, producing water-receptive non-printing areas and grease-receptive image areas. The printing surface is kept wet, so that a roller charged with oil-based ink can be rolled over the surface, and ink will only stick to the grease-receptive image area. Paper is then placed against the surface and the plate is run through a press. Lithography was invented in the late eighteenth century, initially using Bavarian limestone as the printing surface. Its invention made it possible to print a much wider range of marks and areas of tone than possible with earlier printmaking techniques. It also made colour printing easier: areas of different colours can be applied to separate stones and overprinted onto the same sheet. Offset lithography involves printing the image onto an intermediate surface before the final sheet. The image is reversed twice, and appears on the final sheet the same way round as on the stone or plate.

 

 

 

Trafalgar Square 1962

 

 

Trafalgar Suare (Proof) 1962

 

 

La Cathdrale Engloutie Arabesque 3  1961

 

 

Beethoven Suite with Variations      Violin Dingres  1970

 

 

Beethoven Suite with Variations    Missa Solemnis  1970

 
 

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Blwyddyn 1 a 2 / Year 1 and 2

 

Picasso

 

     

 

Picasso’s final works were a mixture of styles, his means of expression in constant flux until the end of his life. Devoting his full energies to his work, Picasso became more daring, his works more colourful and expressive, and from 1968 through 1971 he produced a torrent of paintings and hundreds of copperplate etchings.

 

 

Blwyddyn 3 a 4 / Year 3 and 4

 

Robert Motherwell

 

 

Robert Motherwell (January 24, 1915 – July 16, 1991) was an American abstract expressionist painter and printmaker. 

Motherwell's greatest goal was to use the staging of his work to convey to the viewer the mental and physical engagement of the artist with the canvas. He preferred using the starkness of black paint as one of the basic elements of his paintings. He was known to frequently employ the technique of diluting his paint with turpentine to create a shadow effect.

 

 

 

Blwyddyn 5 a 6 / Year 5 and 6

 

Jackson Pollock

 

 

Pollock described his use of household paints, instead of artist’s paints, as "a natural growth out of a need". He used hardened brushes, sticks and even basting syringes as paint applicators. Pollock's technique of pouring and dripping paint is thought to be one of the origins of the term action painting. With this technique, Pollock was able to achieve a more immediate means of creating art, the paint now literally flowing from his chosen tool onto the canvas. By defying the conventional way of painting on an upright surface, he added a new dimension, literally, by being able to view and apply paint to his canvases from all directions.

Pollock denied "the accident"; he usually had an idea of how he wanted a particular piece to appear. It was about the movement of his body, over which he had control, mixed with the viscous flow of paint, the force of gravity, and the way paint was absorbed into the canvas. The mix of the uncontrollable and the controllable. Flinging, dripping, pouring, spattering, he would energetically move around the canvas, almost as if in a dance, and would not stop until he saw what he wanted to see.

"My painting does not come from the easel. I prefer to tack the unstretched canvas to the hard wall or the floor. I need the resistance of a hard surface. On the floor I am more at ease. I feel nearer, more part of the painting, since this way I can walk around it, work from the four sides and literally be in the painting."