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Thread: Alex Colville, Canadian Artist, dies at 92

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  1. #1
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    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
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    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&si...mg.pOCUqbKKJpU
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