William Turnbull ( born William Turnbull ; January 11, 1922 , Dundee , Scotland - November 16, 2012 , London ) is a British sculptor and painter of Scottish descent. William Turnbull, one of the most influential British sculptors of the second half of the 20th century - the beginning of the 21st century . He worked with various materials: gypsum, bronze, wood, steel and plastic. He turned to the study of the basics of sculpture, the study of totemic images of ancient cultures: Ancient Greece, West Africa, Southeast Asia.
| William Turnbull | |
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| English William Turnbull | |
 Big horse Yorkshire Sculpture Park | |
| Date of Birth | January 11, 1922 |
| Place of Birth | Dundee , Scotland |
| Date of death | November 16, 2012 (90 years old) |
| A place of death | London |
| Citizenship |  United Kingdom |
| Genre | sculpture , installation painting , graphics |
| Study | English Slade school of fine art |
| Website | williamturnbullart.com |
Content
- 1 Biography
- 2 Creativity
- 3 Literature
- 4 Works by W. Turnbull
- 5 notes
- 6 References
Biography
- 1939-1941: William Turnbull collaborates as an illustrator and designer with DC Thompson & Co., a national publishing company . (English) in Dundee , specializing in periodicals.
- 1946-1948: After military service at the Royal Air Force [1], he studied at the Felix Slade School of Fine Arts (Eng.) , London.
- 1948-1950: Internship in Paris with fellow practitioner for the Slade School of Fine Art , Scottish sculptor Paolozzi ; He attended workshops of celebrities such as Leger , Brancusi and Giacometti .
- 1950: First solo exhibition, London .
- 1952: Participates in the Venice Biennale .
- 1957: Participates in the IV Biennale in São Paulo (in the section "10 Young British Artists").
- 1973: Retrospective at the Tate Gallery , London .
Creativity
The early work done in Paris in the late 1940s reflects the influence on the young artist of the creative method Alberto Giacometti , his passion for the philosophy of existentialism . Turnbull's sculptures in painted steel from 1963-1968 , often a whimsical zigzag or wavy shape, are consonant with the problems explored by American minimalists . During these years he was interested in mechanical repetition; combinatorics of finished geometric blocks; impact on the sculpture of the external environment, context.
In the second half of the 70s, Turnbull departs from minimalist seriality and returns to creating small sculptures filled with intimate sensations. [2]
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Literature
- Davidson, Amanda A. The Sculpture of William Turnbull . - Lund Humphries Pub Ltd, 2005. - 208 p. - ISBN 0853318913 .
- Turnbull, William; Renfrew, Colin. William Turnbull: sculpture and paintings . - London: Waddington Galleries, 1998. - 88 p.
- Sylvester, David; Elliot, Patrick. William Turnbull: Sculpture and Paintings . - London: Merrell Holberton in association with Serpentine Gallery, 1995 .-- 96 p. - ISBN 1858940249 .
- Morphet, Richard; Turnbull, William. William Turnbull: Sculpture and Painting . - First Edition. - Tate Gallery Publications, 1973. - 76 p.
- Turnbull (exhibition): Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, New York, October, 1963 . - NY: Marlborough gallery, 1963 .-- 25 p.
Works by W. Turnbull
Notes
- ↑ Since 1941, William Turnbull served as a pilot in the British Air Fleet and flew to Canada , India and Ceylon .
- ↑ Biography of the artist on the Tate Gallery website.
- ↑ A detail of a bronze sculpture showing the nature of the surface.
- ↑ Another view of “Figures of the ancestor” (1998) from the English. Yorkshire Sculpture Park.
- ↑ Another angle of the minimalist sculpture of Uljam Turnbull “Angles” (1967-1968). English Sculpture park. Yorkshire .
- ↑ The work “Double Red” was published on the cover of the catalog of the exhibition of British sculpture in Russia, dedicated to the visit of Her Majesty Elizabeth II in 1994 (p. 34).
- ↑ Eccles, Diana; Linton, Norbert; Rose, Andrea. A changing world: 50 years of British sculpture from the collection of the British Council: catalog of the 20th century sculpture exhibition. - The British Council, 1994 .-- S. 42, 63. - 64 p. - ISBN 0863552579 .
Links
- William Turnbull on the website of the London gallery Offer Waterman & Co
- Slide film of the exhibition of painting and sculpture of W. Turnbull with comments by Anthony Gormley . 2010/3 min.
- 14 paintings on the BBC Corporation website
- Pinterest.com
- 94 photos of Turnbull sculptures in English. Yorkshire Sculpture Park (located on the border of South Yorkshire and West Yorkshire not far from Chesterfield ).
- Artnet.com
- A selection of links to Artcyclopedia.com