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Catty1
07-17-2013, 01:09 PM
He died yesterday. Below is a photo gallery of 20 of his works - and there are many more.

I think it is him in the first photo - he did have a cat!:)

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/photos/the-art-of-alex-colville-slideshow/man-on-verandah-1953-photo-1374073571126.html
Karen
07-17-2013, 04:07 PM
More than half of the paintings feature a dog, cat or horse! Worth clicking through the gallery. And the story mentions that first one (with the cat in it) sold for the most ever for a Canadian painter.
Catty1
07-17-2013, 05:57 PM
More than half of the paintings feature a dog, cat or horse! Worth clicking through the gallery. And the story mentions that first one (with the cat in it) sold for the most ever for a Canadian painter.

Well, of course - there was a cat in it, after all! :D
phesina
07-17-2013, 09:08 PM
I just looked through the gallery. Wow! These are stunning! Such incredibly beautiful paintings.

I never heard of him before this. I think I've missed a lot. Maybe a whole lot of us out there have missed a lot.

Thanks, Candace.

Rest in peace, Sir.

Pat
Catty1
07-18-2013, 10:13 AM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Colville

Colville started as a war artist - kind of like a war photographer. His biographer tells of when he went to Bergen-Belsen after the liberation. There were many dead people and they were being buried in long graves, trenches. He sketched what he saw, but this had a lasting effect on him. His biographer talks about a "code" in his paintings - the placement of people and animals. They are normal scenes but have an odd darkness to them.

Here is a Google Images gallery: http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1662&bih=886&q=alex+colville+paintings&oq=Alex+Colville&gs_l=img.1.1.0i3l2j0l8.1714.5751.0.8290.13.10.0.3. 3.0.171.1236.2j8.10.0....0...1ac.1.21.img.pOCUqbKK JpU
Karen
07-18-2013, 07:49 PM
Well, of course - there was a cat in it, after all! :D

Yeah, but there are many paintings at the Museum of Bad Art that have cats in them - and they don't even seek for much at all, usually are salvaged from thrift shops or donated by the artists or family members thereof!
Catty1
07-18-2013, 08:35 PM
Karen, you do know I was being facetious, right? ;)
Karen
07-18-2013, 09:36 PM
Karen, you do know I was being facetious, right? ;)

Yes, but I wanted to point that out anyway!
Catty1
07-19-2013, 09:10 AM
Yes, but I wanted to point that out anyway!

:):D:love: