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Albert Irvin

Albert Irvin (1922 - 2015) was active/lived in United Kingdom.  Albert Irvin is known for Abstract painting, watercolors, printmaking.

Following is the obituary of Albert Irvin by Mike Tooby in The Guardian, London, Web, 27 Mar. 2015.

The artist Albert Irvin, who has died aged 92, created an extraordinary body of abstract paintings, watercolours and prints. His work became prominent in the reinvigoration of British painting in the 1980s and 90s, and latterly became familiar through wide exhibition and reproduction. He made colour sweep and spray over pictorial areas that give the illusion of depth, created by complex and dynamic marks and gestures of the handheld brush. He often took on a grand scale, but also created brilliant and beautifully crafted works on paper.

Irvin’s celebratory approach epitomised the idea of painting as the expression of the life force within the space of the image. His personal code of street names as titles was a cipher for this. Some, like Nicolson, stood for people close to him. Groups of paintings might capture significant routines: Plimsoll and Kelvin recall his ma   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 8602 characters.]  Artist bio

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