Thursday, August 5, 2010

Chinese pear: Euan Uglow (1990)

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Geometrical divisions and subdivisions are typical of Uglow's work..
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  1. vzaAugust 5, 2010 at 3:25 PM

    Article from 2006, Tgia, but really a delight for the little peeks into his life and style.



    Take Mimosa (1970-71), in which a sprig of mimosa is stuck in a jar, its yellow leaves cascading downwards. Uglow was as ungiving as ever in his public explanation: "As far as I'm concerned, that's all about movement." But Aitchison reveals that the sprig was taken from the funeral wreath of his own mother, who had been deeply fond of Uglow. A year to the day after her death, Uglow knocked without warning at the door of Craigie's house in Kennington. It was the only occasion that Uglow ever interrupted his routine. "Let's go to Covent Garden," he suggested, and the two spent the day walking around. But Uglow never once mentioned Lady Aitchison. "That's just how he was."



    http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2006/dec/16/art.architecture

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  2. thankgodimatheistAugust 5, 2010 at 3:53 PM

    Thanks vza..I'll take the time to read it..I was a happy man when I found the only book about him, his complete work, in Sydney a few years back.. I also met an English artist who was his student at Slade and she told me of a kind of a confrerie of followers who would paint exactly in his manner.  One of them is John Long who's work is hardly distinguishable from Uglow's (!)..

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