Philip Absolon
Philip Absolon was born Nov 24 1960 BirthErith, Kent, England.
Lives and works in HomeNorfolk.
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"I do lots of drawing from life. I’ve drawn continuously since I was sixteen. I like to watch cats moving and draw them. Then I enlarge the drawing on a photocopier and trace it onto the canvas using dressmaker’s tracing paper. I usually paint 8-10pm every night: a painting takes up to a month."
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Absolon works in his bedsit in Rochester, where he presumably keeps the cats he regularly chooses to paint. He seems proud to have been rejected by the RCA when he showed them a selection of these in 1987. Some of the cat paintings are classics, but for me the most interesting works are those that depict people and unusual places, such as The Meaning of Life, which shows representatives from a variety of faith groups having a meeting in front of a mystical, psychedelic building…
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Documents of Contemporary Art. Utopias: Throughout its diverse manifestations, the utopian entails two related but contradictory elements: the aspiration to a better world, and the acknowledgment that its form may only ever live in our imaginations. Furthermore, we are as haunted by the failures of utopian enterprise as we are inspired by the desire to repair the failed and build the new... |
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South African Art Now. South African Art Now documents, through in-depth essays and stunning full-color photographs, the remarkable work of nearly one hundred South African artists working in every medium from painting, sculpture, and video to cutting-edge performance art. This lush volume includes the impressive work of art world stars such as William Kentridge and Marlene Dumas; newly prominent artists such as Berni Searle, Robin Rhode, and Mustafa Maluka; and exciting newcomers still unknown outside their own country, but clearly marked for success... |
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James Rosenquist. Painting Below Zero: Notes on a Life in Art. “Frank, funny, truthful, ironic and in every way an entertaining account of one major American artist’s involvement in an art movement that interests everyone–and, more than that, of his own character. Jim Rosenquist is a true American original and his book ought to be read by anyone who wants to understand the last half-century of his country’s visual culture, high, low, and in between.” –Robert Hughes, amazon |
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