About Rory Mcewen
Tuesday, 13 August 2019
art books,
art history,
botanical art,
botanical artists,
exhibitions,
paintings,
vellum,
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I've spent a delightful few hours lately putting together a page About Rory McEwen on my Botanical Art too Artists website.
I'm going to prepare a serial of pages virtually diverse famous botanical artists. I started amongst Maria Sibylla Merian hence decided to arrive at a contemporary botanical creative someone adjacent - and, of class Rory McEwen was the obvious ane to do! For those who don't know him, he's belike the most revered too influential botanical creative someone inwards the Great Britain inwards recent years.
He died inwards 1982 - only his botanical fine art too his legacy lives on.
I'm guessing rather a lot of botanical artists similar a shot paradigm on vellum volition convey seen his paintings at some point.
On the page you lot tin find:
I'm going to prepare a serial of pages virtually diverse famous botanical artists. I started amongst Maria Sibylla Merian hence decided to arrive at a contemporary botanical creative someone adjacent - and, of class Rory McEwen was the obvious ane to do! For those who don't know him, he's belike the most revered too influential botanical creative someone inwards the Great Britain inwards recent years.
He died inwards 1982 - only his botanical fine art too his legacy lives on.
I'm guessing rather a lot of botanical artists similar a shot paradigm on vellum volition convey seen his paintings at some point.
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| A novel page 'About Rory McEwen' on Botanical Art too Artists |
- a summary of his life equally it related to botanical art - plus
- a detailed timeline - i.e. I lady friend out all the musical side of his life too stick strictly to the botanical art
- references to biographical data elsewhere
- a summary of his artistic practice - and
- links to to a greater extent than detailed comments
- plus a few quotes virtually his value to botanical art
"I pigment flowers equally a agency of getting equally unopen equally possible to what I perceive equally the truth, my truth of the fourth dimension inwards which I live"Rory McEwen
- summaries of the of import botanical fine art books
- ones he collaborated on - Old Carnations too Pinks; The Auricula and Tulips too Tulipmania)
- catalogues of the major posthumous too retrospective exhibitions inwards 1988 too 2013.
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| A double page spread from Old Carnations too Pinks He did the botanical illustrations spell studying at Cambridge University |
- lists of the artworks he produced which tin last identified (I'm certain at that spot must last many more!)
- categorised according to a timeline and
- then listed using a color to dot which exhibition they relate to. This, I think, is an apply which nobody has done before. I know I was going cross-eyed yesteryear the fourth dimension I finished! It did let on really clearly how the thematic serial came virtually - too which dependent area thing he returned to - or never left.
- a summary of the top dog exhibitions. Plus a listing of all exhibitions he was involved amongst - categorised by
- solo exhibitions inwards his life time,
- group exhibitions inwards his life fourth dimension and
- retrospective exhibitions - held posthumously
- Plus videos which present his watercolour paintings on vellum inwards all their glorious precision too luminosity.
For truthful fans I promise you lot relish it. I learned a lot spell doing it..... only I withal wishing I'd establish out to a greater extent than virtually the True Facts from Nature exhibition - the ane where everything changed forever....
For those who desire to know virtually the deport upon he had I recommend you lot read:
- this spider web log post service yesteryear Coral Guest - which comments on the deport upon of his work
- this review yesteryear Marin J Allen - which comments on his artistic practice
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