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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Michael Kidner, RA, Brown, Mauve, Green and Ochre, 1965

Michael Kidner, RA

Brown, Mauve, Green and Ochre, 1965
Oil on canvas
183 x 168 cm
Michael James Kidner RA (1917-2009) was a pioneer of Op art in the mid 1960s. After brushes with American Abstract Expressionism and Bauhaus ideas, he began to develop his own...
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Michael James Kidner RA (1917-2009) was a pioneer of Op art in the mid 1960s. After brushes with American Abstract Expressionism and Bauhaus ideas, he began to develop his own distinctive style. His interests in mathematics, science and the theories of chaos have informed an art that is at once rational and playful.

His distinguished career included many honours, influential teaching posts, international group shows and one man exhibitions in Britain, Eastern Europe, Brazil, Austria and Scandinavia. A retrospective at the Serpentine in 1984 introduced a new generation of British artists to his work, and he was elected as a Royal Academician in 2004.

“Unless you read a painting as a feeling, then you don’t get anything at all.” - Michael Kidner
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Provenance

Acquired directly from the Artist

Exhibitions

1984-1985, Michael Kidner. Painting, Drawing, Sculpture 1959 - 84, Arts Council of Great Britain, Serpentine Gallery, London and Hatton Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne

2008, Post - War To Pop - Modern British Art: Abstraction, Pop and Op Art, Whitford Fine Art, London.

Literature

Michael Kidner. Painting, Drawing, Sculpture 1959 - 84, Arts Councl of Great Britain, 1984, cat. no. 36

Post -War To Pop - Modern British Art: Abstraction, Pop and Op Art, Whitford Fine Art, London, 2008, exhibition catalogue with introduction by An Jo FERMON, ill. cat. no. 27.

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