FIGURATIVELY SPEAKING
Date: October 2020
Exhibition/Show Type:
Solo
Media: Painting
Exhibition Description
FIGURATIVELY SPEAKING was an on-line only exhibition curated during COVID pandemic lockdown.
This archive entry broadly represents an online exhibition created by The Cut during the COVID shutdowns.
Throughout the shutdowns many arts organistations acted to keep artists and audiences in contact. The Cut was able to contact artists who had previously exhibited in our galleries and offered them an opportunity to contribute to on-line exhibitions. There were four exhibitions, each dealing with a significant theme.
This was the third of four on-line exhibitions The Cut curated.
The introduction to this on-line exhibition said:
The invention and development of photography, Cezanne and the emergence of abstract painting have posed a good deal for the figurative painter to deal with in the last 200 years, and this exhibition comprising artists drawn from The Cut archive reveals a multiplicity of approaches.
The short lived but highly respected artist teacher John Clark (1941-1947) who taught at Hull College of Art and later at University of Lethbridge , Alberta, Canada was an admirer of a wide range artists including Henri Matisse, Edward Hopper, Philip Guston, Milton Avery and Marsden Hartley and in his work confronted some of dilemmas facing the contemporary figurative painter : “I want my paintings to be overtly figurative and overtly abstract if such a thing is possible – not synthesised into an ambiguity” source https://artuk.org/discover/artists/clark-john-19431989
Artists included in this on-line exhibition included
Simon Carter
John Clark
Paul Cope
Farrow Hawkins
Graham Giles
Menso Groeneveld
John Kiki
David Page
Fabian Peake
Mark Readhead
Ivy Smith
