Dame Elizabeth Violet Blackadder
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Dame Elizabeth Violet Blackadder |
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Female |
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British |
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1931 |
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Painter, Printmaker |
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Painter
Printmaker
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Biography
Elizabeth Blackadder's compositions images and marks, often developed from still life, are placed across the picture plane, sometimes leaving large areas empty. The ambiguity both of pictorial space and of the forms occupying it, disrupts easy reading, and makes the viewer's gaze move carefully over the whole surface. Blackadder has cited Italian art (from the Renaissance to Georgio Morandi) and Japanese culture as influences. On visits to Japan she was struck by the spatial arrangement of temples, gardens and calligraphy, but also by cheap plastic objects, which she included in her work. She has also painted landscapes, flowers, cats and portraits, including in 1988 a painting of the writer Naomi Mitchison (National Portrait Gallery, London).
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