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Michael Kidner is British, born in Kettering, Northants in 1917. He studied history and anthropology at Cambridge University from 1936 through 1939 and landscape architecture at Ohio State University from 1940 to 1941. In 1941 until 1946 he saw war service in the Canadian Army and in 1946 entered Goldsmith's College of Art but soon left.
He did not begin full time painting until 1953, when he lived in Paris for two years attending Andre L'Hote's Atelier. In 1956 he spent five to six months in St. Ives meeting its artists; in 1957 he moved to London and fell under the influence of American Abstract Expressionism. His ideas on color were taken further by a course he took at Leeds. From 1963 through 1967 he made interference patterns, stripes and wave paintings with the main emphasis on color. Laer he became involved in system games and kinetic art.
Written and compiled by Jean Ershler Schatz, artist and researcher from Laguna Woods, California.
Source:
20th Century Painters and Sculptors (English) Francis Spalding
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