Alison Watt
Phantom
Published on 28. March 2008
Book
Hardback
72 pages
978-1-85709-412-1 (ISBN)
Description
British artist Alison Watt (b. 1965) creates monumental paintings depicting richly draped fabric. These canvases show closely cropped folds, gathers, tucks, and creases--all sensuously developed from a selective palette of white, grey, burnt sienna, cadmium red, and yellow.
The National Gallery's seventh Associate Artist, Watt has been working in a studio near the permanent collection. This proximity to masterpieces she has long admired has concentrated her focus on the tradition of drapery in western art and inspired her dramatically abstracted reinterpretations. This beautifully designed and illustrated book presents her most recent series of powerful, large-scale paintings. In an essay featuring photographs of Watt at work in the gallery studio, Colin Wiggins reviews the artist's creative process. Also included is a new piece written by celebrated Scottish poet Don Paterson that responds to these works.
Published by National Gallery Company/Distributed by Yale University Press
Exhibition Schedule:
National Gallery, London (March 13 - June 22, 2008)
The National Gallery's seventh Associate Artist, Watt has been working in a studio near the permanent collection. This proximity to masterpieces she has long admired has concentrated her focus on the tradition of drapery in western art and inspired her dramatically abstracted reinterpretations. This beautifully designed and illustrated book presents her most recent series of powerful, large-scale paintings. In an essay featuring photographs of Watt at work in the gallery studio, Colin Wiggins reviews the artist's creative process. Also included is a new piece written by celebrated Scottish poet Don Paterson that responds to these works.
Published by National Gallery Company/Distributed by Yale University Press
Exhibition Schedule:
National Gallery, London (March 13 - June 22, 2008)
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
38 color illus.
Dimensions
Height: 267 mm
Width: 241 mm
Weight
635 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-85709-412-1 (9781857094121)
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Persons
Don Paterson is a renowned poet, writer, and musician. Colin Wiggins is Deputy Head of Education at the National Gallery, London. He is the author of numerous books, including Leon Kossoff: Drawing from Painting, Tom Hunter: Living in Hell and Other Stories, and Ron Mueck, all distributed by Yale.