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 Basil Blackshaw RUA (b.1932)
Noted for his expressionist even abstract approach to traditional
paintings, as well as his sports paintings and portraits, Basil
Blackshaw was born in Glengormley, County Antrim, Northern
Ireland. He attended Methodist College in Belfast and studied at
the Belfast College of Art from 1948 to 1951. Then, in 1951 he
was awarded a scholarship by the Committee for the Encouragement of
Music and the Arts to study in Paris. Since then he has mainly
worked in the Lagan Valley. A master in the technical skills of
painting, Blackshaw is highly regarded for his loose application of
paint and a very distinctive use of colour. His pictures of horse
racing, and boxing are especially popular but his compositions also
include dogs, landscapes, rural life and city scenes.
Blackshaw is also a celebrated figure-painter, especially of the nude
form, and a noted portraitist. His portrait subjects include
Archbishops George Simms and Armstrong, Brian Friel, Jennifer Johnston,
Douglas Gageby, Vincent Ferguson, Ted Hicky and Michael Longley.
In 1995, the Arts Council of Northern Ireland organised a major
retrospective of Blackshaw's artwork which travelled from Belfast to
Dublin, Cork and many galleries in the United States. In 2001, he won
the Glen Dimplex Award for Sustained Contribution to the Visual Arts in
Ireland. He was elected as an associate of the Royal Ulster Academy of
the Arts in 1977, and an Academician in 1981. He is a member of the
eminent group of Irish artists, Aosdana.
Source:
Online Encyclopedia of Irish and World Art
http://www.visual-arts-cork.com/irish-artists/basil-blackshaw.htm |
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