크리스토퍼 프랫(Christopher Pratt), 캐나다, 화가, 1935-2022

크리스토퍼 프랫(Christopher Pratt), 캐나다, 화가, 1935-2022

크리스토퍼 프랫(Christopher Pratt), 캐나다, 화가, 1935-2022

크리스토퍼 프랫(Christopher Pratt), 캐나다, 화가, 1935-2022

크리스토퍼 프랫(Christopher Pratt), 캐나다, 화가, 1935-2022

크리스토퍼 프랫(Christopher Pratt), 캐나다, 화가, 1935-2022

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크리스토퍼 프랫(Christopher Pratt), 캐나다, 화가, 1935-2022

크리스토퍼 프랫(Christopher Pratt), 캐나다, 화가, 1935-2022

크리스토퍼 프랫(Christopher Pratt), 캐나다, 화가, 1935-2022

크리스토퍼 프랫(Christopher Pratt), 캐나다, 화가, 1935-2022

 

크리스토퍼 프랫(Christopher Pratt), 캐나다, 화가, 1935-2022

캐나다의 가장 동쪽 '뉴펀들랜드(New-Found-land)'는 대서양 건너편의 유럽을 마주 보고 있는 섬인데, 타이타닉호가 빙산에 부딪혀 침몰한 곳이기도 합니다.

 

이곳에서 나고 이곳에서 평생을 살았던 '크리스토퍼 프랫'은 캐나다를 대표하는 판화가이자 화가입니다.

 

스무 살 무렵 대학에서 의학공부를 시작했으나, 같은 대학에서 미술을 공부하는 여자친구를 만나 미술을 시작하고 그들은 결혼도 했죠.

 

파란색과 녹색 계통의 중간색을 주로 사용한 그의 작품에는, 바다와 겨울의 눈 등 뉴펀들랜드의 자연이 담겨있습니다. 매우 사실적인 작품이지만 직선과 빛을 강조하면서 절제된 아름다움을 살린 미니멀리즘 작품들입니다.

 

                                                                                             About Him

 

I have always had a sense that there is an immense presence in ordinariness. This ordinariness is not a celebration of the sordid or the tawdry or the trite: it celebrates the non-exotic, the anti-picturesque. Conceptually, it is totally North American: it is Hopper's hotel rooms and Hemingway's descriptions of Nick Adams and Alex Colville's cows. It is that substrate of self-consciousness and insecurity that troubles the surface bravado of Walt Whitman's poetry; it is Grant Wood's innocence in offering "American Gothic" up to ridicule. It is why Mary Cassatt ought not to have gone to Paris and why Georgia O'Keefe and Emily Carr did better staying home. It is the difference in the albeit mannered peopling of paintings by Thomas Hart Benton and the peasants in the work of Jean Francois Millet - who still never owed much to Maccicio. It is Shaker furniture, but it is never puritanical. It is the dignity of things that have nothing going for them beyond the fact of their existence. It is an ordinariness saturated with democracy, with potential, like the hum you hear in a length of rope stretched to its limit, just before it breaks.

 

Ordinary Things: A Different Kind of Voyage, 2009

 

CHRISTOPHER PRATT (1935-2022) was born in St. John's, Newfoundland. He attended the Glasgow School of Art, Scotland, from 1957-1959 and in 1961 he received a B.A. in Fine Art from Mount Allison University, Sackville, New Brunswick.

 

Throughout his career, Pratt has received many awards and honours. In 1965, Pratt became an Associate of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts (ARCA) and a member of the Canadian Society of Graphic Art. In 1969, he was a member of the Canada Council Visual Arts Jury. In 1973, Pratt was named an Officer of the Order of Canada and in 1983 he became a Companion of the Order. In 1980 Pratt designed the Provincial Flag of Newfoundland and Labrador.

 

Christopher Pratt was the subject of a major touring retrospective organized by the Vancouver Art Gallery in 1985, a touring print retrospective and catalogue raisonné, The Prints of Christopher Pratt: 1958 - 1991 in 1992 and a major travelling exhibition organized by the National Gallery of Canada in 2005. In 2015, the exhibition "Christopher Pratt: The Places I Go" was featured at The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery, St. John's, Newfoundland.

 

Pratt's work can be found in numerous Canadian and international, public, corporate and private collections, including Art Gallery of Hamilton, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Art Gallery of Ontario, Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, New Brunswick; the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Museum London, Ontario; National Gallery of Canada, The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery, St. John's, Newfoundland; Vancouver Art Gallery, Bank of Montreal, London Life, RBC Financial Group, Scotiabank, Shaw Communications, Torys LLP and UBS Securities, Canada.

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에리크 할스트룀(Eric Hallström), 스웨덴, 1893-1946

 

Franz Kline (1910~1962)

 

스튜어트 데이비스(Stuart Davis), 미국, 화가, 1892-1964