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OverviewThis is the first book on artist Jeanne Masoero (born 1937), one of the leading exponents of 'lyrical abstraction' - a term used by the English critic Sarah Kent to describe a range of late twentieth-century artists whose work, although abstract, is also related to and in communion with the external world, and which has a certain lyrical quality. Her particular concern with colour, light and spatial depth has been evident from the great clouds and glowing bars of colour of the first London exhibitions, to the mature work of the present where, using her own, unique method of composition, she creates thousands of tiny grains of colour, which combine to form paintings of striking power and light. Jeanne Masoero is an English citizen but the roots of her culture are European. At Goldsmiths College, London she began a lifelong friendship with the constructivist artists Kenneth and Mary Martin. She proceeded to the Slade, where she became a star pupil of William Coldstream. Her earliest paintings were made with transparent layers of fluid colour on a white ground, and she moved from there to using torn canvas, soaked in thinned paint, to provide the colour field with a new and calculated stress factor. A visit to the Mayan sites in the Yucatan led to a wholly new series of works using all white folded paper and layered reliefs. This gave rise to her Basis for Light exhibitions at the ICA, London and the Ikon Gallery, Birmingham in 1979. The pursuit of a more deep-seated structure, combined with a study of American Indian patterns and of mapping techniques, led Masoero to produce a large body of black-and-white work, before finally returning to colour in the Roads and Sky series of the early 1980s. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Sacha CraddockPublisher: Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd Imprint: Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd Edition: New edition Dimensions: Width: 24.50cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 24.50cm Weight: 0.658kg ISBN: 9780853318545ISBN 10: 0853318549 Pages: 256 Publication Date: 28 April 2005 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: No Longer Our Product Availability: Out of stock The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsContents: The book in your hands, Guy Brett; Jeanne Masoero: Background to an artist's life, Edward Rutherfurd; A survey, Sacha Craddock; Extracts from a conversation between the artist and Jasia Reichardt; Figures and light, Sarah Kent.Reviews'Small dots of saturated colour - red and green - are clustered at the centre of the canvas as though held, like iron filings, by an invisible force. They fan out and infiltrate virgin territory as though travelling along valleys of fault lines. References to landscape are inescapable. Some constellations remind one of satellite pictures of the earth's surface - they have the same surreal beauty. Some resemble maps or charts, others suggest particles of free-floating energy. These paintings are the culmination of years of refining a personal vision.' Sarah Kent, Author InformationSacha Craddock is an independent art critic and lecturer. Guy Brett had been an international writer on art, lecturer and exhibition organiser since the 1960s. Sarah Kent was the visual arts editor of Time Out Magazine. Edward Rutherfurd is the internationally best-selling author of the historical novels Sarum, Russka, London and The Forest. He is also an art collector. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |