Sell Paintings Biography
(Source google.com)
Born in Fife, Scotland in 1951, Jack Vettriano left school at sixteen to become a mining engineer. For his twenty-first birthday, a girlfriend gave him a set of watercolour paints and, from then on, he spent much of his spare time teaching himself to paint. In 1989, he submitted two paintings to the Royal Scottish Academy’s annual exhibition; both were accepted and sold on the first day. The following year, an equally enthusiastic reaction greeted the three paintings, which he entered for the prestigious Summer Exhibition at London’s Royal Academy and his new life as an artist began from that point on. Over the last twenty years, interest in Vettriano’s work has grown consistently. There have been sell-out solo exhibitions in Edinburgh, London, Hong Kong and New York. 2004 was an exceptional year in Vettriano’s career; his best known painting, The Singing Butler was sold at Sotheby’s for close to £750,000; he was awarded an OBE for Services to the Visual Arts and was the subject of a South Bank Show documentary, entitled ‘Jack Vettriano: The People’s Painter‘. From 1994-2007, Vettriano was represented by Portland Gallery in London but the relationship ended in June 2007. In 2008, Vettriano undertook a variety of private projects, including the launch of a new book, Studio Life, and commissions to paint portraits of Sir Jackie Stewart and Zara Phillips, the latter of which was part of a charity fund-raising project for Sport Relief, the experience of which was captured in a documentary broadcast on BBC1 in March 2008. In 2009, Vettriano was commissioned by the Yacht Club of Monaco to create a series of paintings to mark the centenary of their world famous yacht, Tuiga. The subsequent exhibition, ‘Homage a Tuiga‘, premiered in Monaco as part of Classic Yacht Week in September 2009, before touring to the UK in 2010. In 2010, an exhibition of over forty new paintings, ‘Days of Wine & Roses‘, was officially opened at the Kirkcaldy Museum & Art Gallery in Fife, by First Minister, the Rt Hon Alex Salmond SNP. The exhibition then toured to London, opening at Heartbreak in September 2010. In December 2011, Vettriano’s self-portrait, ‘The Weight‘, went on long-term display at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh, when it re-opened after a major three-year refurbishment programme. A major Retrospective exhibition to mark 20 Years of Vettriano’s career, will opened at Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum, Glasgow on the 21st September. The exhibition runs until 23rd February 2014. For further details, please visit the dedicated Retrospective website HERE. Vettriano divides his time between his homes in Fife, London and Nice. Jack Vettriano is now represented exclusively by Heartbreak Gallery in London. Heartbreak Publishing is the official publishing company for all Jack Vettriano merchandise. - See more . The son of a pastor, brought up in a religious and cultured atmosphere, Vincent was highly emotional and lacked self-confidence. Between 1860 and 1880, when he finally decided to become an artist, van Gogh had had two unsuitable and unhappy romances and had worked unsuccessfully as a clerk in a bookstore, an art salesman, and a preacher in the Borinage (a dreary mining district in Belgium), where he was dismissed for overzealousness.
He remained in Belgium to study art, determined to give happiness by creating beauty. The works of his early Dutch period are somber-toned, sharply lit, genre paintings of which the most famous is "The Potato Eaters" (1885). In that year van Gogh went to Antwerp where he discovered the works of Rubens and purchased many Japanese prints.
In 1886 he went to Paris to join his brother Théo, the manager of Goupil's gallery. In Paris, van Gogh studied with Cormon, inevitably met Pissarro, Monet, and Gauguin, and began to lighten his very dark palette and to paint in the short brushstrokes of the Impressionists. His nervous temperament made him a difficult companion and night-long discussions combined with painting all day undermined his health. He decided to go south to Arles where he hoped his friends would join him and help found a school of art. Gauguin did join him but with disastrous results. Near the end of 1888, an incident led Gauguin to ultimately leave Arles. Van Gogh pursued him with an open razor, was stopped by Gauguin, but ended up cutting a portion of his own ear lobe off. Van Gogh then began to alternate between fits of madness and lucidity and was sent to the asylum in Saint-Remy for treatment.
Sell Paintings Pintings of Nature Abstract on Canvas for Kids Scenes Love Beauty and Environment Wallpapers Easy Scenery
Sell Paintings Pintings of Nature Abstract on Canvas for Kids Scenes Love Beauty and Environment Wallpapers Easy Scenery
Sell Paintings Pintings of Nature Abstract on Canvas for Kids Scenes Love Beauty and Environment Wallpapers Easy Scenery
Sell Paintings Pintings of Nature Abstract on Canvas for Kids Scenes Love Beauty and Environment Wallpapers Easy Scenery
Sell Paintings Pintings of Nature Abstract on Canvas for Kids Scenes Love Beauty and Environment Wallpapers Easy Scenery
Sell Paintings Pintings of Nature Abstract on Canvas for Kids Scenes Love Beauty and Environment Wallpapers Easy Scenery
Sell Paintings Pintings of Nature Abstract on Canvas for Kids Scenes Love Beauty and Environment Wallpapers Easy Scenery
Sell Paintings Pintings of Nature Abstract on Canvas for Kids Scenes Love Beauty and Environment Wallpapers Easy Scenery
Sell Paintings Pintings of Nature Abstract on Canvas for Kids Scenes Love Beauty and Environment Wallpapers Easy Scenery
Sell Paintings Pintings of Nature Abstract on Canvas for Kids Scenes Love Beauty and Environment Wallpapers Easy Scenery
Sell Paintings Pintings of Nature Abstract on Canvas for Kids Scenes Love Beauty and Environment Wallpapers Easy Scenery
Sell Paintings Pintings of Nature Abstract on Canvas for Kids Scenes Love Beauty and Environment Wallpapers Easy Scenery
Sell Paintings Pintings of Nature Abstract on Canvas for Kids Scenes Love Beauty and Environment Wallpapers Easy Scenery
Sell Paintings Pintings of Nature Abstract on Canvas for Kids Scenes Love Beauty and Environment Wallpapers Easy Scenery
No comments:
Post a Comment