Author: Gooding, Mel
Hardback; Book; 134 Colour and 32 B&w Illustrations
191 pages
Published: September 2001
Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
ISBN: 0853318093
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This is the first book on major British abstract painter Gillian Ayres (b.1930), one of the most widely loved of contemporary British artists.As a young artist in the 1950s, Ayres was one of the first British painters to respond to the excitement surrounding the revelation of American Abstract Expressionism in the exhibition Modern Art in the United States shown at the Tate Gallery, London, in 1956.Some of Ayres's work of the 1950s made use of Pollock's drip techniques, and in the 1960s she created some lusciously coloured stain paintings. By the 1970s Ayres had embarked on anexploration of instinctive painterly abstraction, creating some of the most sensuous images in recent British art.Traces the creative career of a remarkable artist, placing it within historical, contemporary and critical contexts. This text traces the career of British abstract painter Gillian Ayres, placing it within historical, contemporary and critical contexts. The book reproduces in colour over 130 of her paintings, and highlights the diversity in her style and manner.