Winifred Nicholson

Liberation of Colour

Jovan Nicholson

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Philip Wilson Publishers Ltd
01 November 2016

Art & Architecture; Art & design styles: from c 1960; Painting & paintings; Individual artists, art monographs

This new publication explores the whole career of Winifred Nicholson with a special emphasis on her theories of colour. Using specific paintings to examine her ideas and writings about colour the book includes her late 'prismatic' pictures which have never been properly explained.

Throughout her life Winifred Nicholson was interested in prisms and rainbows, but when she was given some prisms by a physicist friend in the mid 1970s her painting took on a new direction. Looking through a prism she saw objects with a rim of prismatic colour, and explored and developed these ideas, often painting pictures that verged on the abstract. Nicholson's 'prismatic' pictures were a culmination of her life's search to find ""form's secret and rhythmic law"". She painted them in Greece in 1979, at her home in Cumbria, and during her last painting trip to the Island of Eigg in the Hebrides in 1980, where she had an inspired period of painting and made some of her best loved pictures.

Published on the occasion of the exhibition 'Liberation of Colour' at mima, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern art, the book illustrates many previously unseen paintings from private collections, as well as some of Nicholson's best known works, and draws on new research, including previously unseen archival material.

By: Jovan Nicholson
Imprint: Philip Wilson Publishers Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 278mm, Width: 234mm, Spine: 16mm
Weight: 779g
ISBN: 9781781300466
ISBN 10: 1781300461
Pages: 144
Publication Date: 01 November 2016
Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Further / Higher Education , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Directors’ Foreword Liberation of Colour Catalogue Sparks of Light The Abstract View of Colour Mysterious Fulfilment The Prismatic Paintings

Jovan Nicholson is an independent art historian with a particular interest in modern British art. He has worked on various projects with the Henry Moore Foundation, the Barbican Art Gallery, the Russian Museum, St Petersburg, the Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, the British Council, organising exhibitions between Russia and Britain. He has been an adviser on a number of exhibitions, the latest being Art & Life for which he wrote the accompanying catalogue. He has written extensively on Winifred Nicholson, and is an acknowledged expert on her work. He is a grandson of Ben and Winifred Nicholson.

Reviews for Winifred Nicholson: Liberation of Colour

'Jovan Nicholson's depth of knowledge informs the selection and the catalogue...the long introductory essay enables the viewer to track sufficient details about Winifred's life through her art'--Frances Spalding, Apollo Magazine, 1st December 2016