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Michael Kidner

Michael Kidner (1917 - 2009) was active/lived in England.  Michael Kidner is known for Op art, abstract expressionist painting.

Following is the Michael Kidner obituary in The Guardian newspaper, website, London by Michael McNay, 12 December 2009

Op art pioneer whose work was informed by mathematics and chaos theory

Most of Michael Kidner's best known companions in op art – among them Bridget Riley, Jeffrey Steele and Peter Sedgley – were born in 1930 or 1931. Kidner was born in 1917, yet became a professional artist after them. He made up for lost time: he worked until the final month of his life. Although stricken by ataxia and unable to walk, he would ascend to his home-based studio in Hampstead, north London, by chairlift every morning. With his hands out of commission, too, Kidner hired the artist Adrian Richardson to execute his paintings for him, just as the arthritic Pierre-Auguste Renoir had employed an assistant to execute the sculptures he designed.

Kidner gave up work only when he was diagnosed with cancer a month before his death, aged 92. In the week he died, an exhibi   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 7732 characters.]  Artist bio

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