Alison Watt

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Wiggins, Colin/ Paterson, Don 저자(글)

National Gallery London · 2008년 03월 01일

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Alison Watt's monumental canvases reveal a deep fascination with the suggestive power of white fabric, often painted closely cropped as folds and gathers. This title reviews Watt's career, and examines how the National Gallery collection and traditional representations of drapery in art are manifested in her paintings.
Don Patersonis a renowned poet, writer, and musician. Colin Wigginsis Deputy Head of Education at the National Gallery, London. He is the author of numerous books, includingLeon Kossoff: Drawing from Painting,Tom Hunter: Living in Hell and Other Stories, andRon Mueck,all distributed by Yale.
Don Patersonis a renowned poet, writer, and musician. Colin Wigginsis Deputy Head of Education at the National Gallery, London. He is the author of numerous books, including Leon Kossoff: Drawing from Painting, Tom Hunter: Living in Hell and Other Stories, and Ron Mueck,all distributed by Yale.
British artist Alison Watt (b. 1965) creates monumental paintings depicting richly draped fabric. These canvases show closely cropped folds, gathers, tucks, and creases--all sensuously developed from a selective palette of white, grey, burnt sienna, cadmium red, and yellow. The National Gallery's seventh Associate Artist, Watt has been working in a studio near the permanent collection. This proximity to masterpieces she has long admired has concentrated her focus on the tradition of drapery in western art and inspired her dramatically abstracted reinterpretations. This beautifully designed and illustrated book presents her most recent series of powerful, large-scale paintings. In an essay featuring photographs of Watt at work in the gallery studio, Colin Wiggins reviews the artist's creative process. Also included is a new piece written by celebrated Scottish poet Don Paterson that responds to these works.
British artist Alison Watt (b. 1965) creates monumental paintings depicting richly draped fabric. These canvases show closely cropped folds, gathers, tucks, and creasesall sensuously developed from a selective palette of white, grey, burnt sienna, cadmium red, and yellow. The National Gallery's seventh Associate Artist, Watt has been working in a studio near the permanent collection. This proximity to masterpieces she has long admired has concentrated her focus on the tradition of drapery in western art and inspired her dramatically abstracted reinterpretations. This beautifully designed and illustrated book presents her most recent series of powerful, large-scale paintings. In an essay featuring photographs of Watt at work in the gallery studio, Colin Wiggins reviews the artist's creative process. Also included is a new piece written by celebrated Scottish poet Don Paterson that responds to these works.
British artist Alison Watt (b. 1965) creates monumental paintings depicting richly draped fabric. These canvases show closely cropped folds, gathers, tucks, and creases--all sensuously developed from a selective palette of white, grey, burnt sienna, cadmium red, and yellow. The National Gallery's seventh Associate Artist, Watt has been working in a studio near the permanent collection. This proximity to masterpieces she has long admired has concentrated her focus on the tradition of drapery in western art and inspired her dramatically abstracted reinterpretations. This beautifully designed and illustrated book presents her most recent series of powerful, large-scale paintings. In an essay featuring photographs of Watt at work in the gallery studio, Colin Wiggins reviews the artist's creative process. Also included is a new piece written by celebrated Scottish poet Don Paterson that responds to these works.
British artist Alison Watt (b. 1965) creates monumental paintings depicting richly draped fabric. These canvases show closely cropped folds, gathers, tucks, and creasesall sensuously developed from a selective palette of white, grey, burnt sienna, cadmium red, and yellow.The National Gallery's seventh Associate Artist, Watt has been working in a studio near the permanent collection. This proximity to masterpieces she has long admired has concentrated her focus on the tradition of drapery in western art and inspired her dramatically abstracted reinterpretations. This beautifully designed and illustrated book presents her most recent series of powerful, large-scale paintings. In an essay featuring photographs of Watt at work in the gallery studio, Colin Wiggins reviews the artist's creative process. Also included is a new piece written by celebrated Scottish poet Don Paterson that responds to these works.
"Alison Watt's monumental canvases reveal a deep fascination with the suggestive power of white fabric, creating sensual works evocative of the human form. As the National Gallery's seventh Associate Artist, Watt has been working in a studio close to masterpieces that she has admired all her life. Through the process of examining the traditional use of fabric in art, Watt has created this spectacular collection of paintings. A new poem by Don Paterson is published here for the first time, complementing the paintings' mysterious and epic qualities."--BOOK JACKET.

작가정보

저자(글) Wiggins, Colin/ Paterson, Don

목차

• Something Unseen	p. 13
  Phantom	p. 31
  The Paintings	p. 42
  Biography	p. 69
  Table of Contents provided by Blackwell. All Rights Reserved.

기본정보

ISBN	9781857094121 ( 1857094123 )
발행(출시)일자	2008년 03월 01일
쪽수	72쪽
크기	250 * 270 * 14 mm / 707 g
총권수	1권
언어	영어