Albert Irvin 阿爾伯特·歐文 (1922-2015) Abstract Expressionism British

tonykwk39@gmail.com Albert Irvin was a prolific British artist, best known for his exuberant paintings, watercolours, screenprints and gouaches. He was born in London and continued to live and work there throughout his life. His art focusses on capturing and exploring the experience of being in the world. The first major connection between painting and Irvin’s own life occurred in the early 1940s when he attended the Northampton School of Art. He had to cut short his studies when he joined the Royal Air Force in 1941 to serve as a navigator in World War II. After the war Irvin returned to his passion for art, enrolling in 1946 at Goldsmiths College in London. He graduated four years later with a National Diploma in Design. Irvin went back, as a teacher, to Goldsmiths in 1962 remaining there for over twenty years. Throughout the 1950s Irvin developed his unique style of literal meaning through his painting. In his early career he battled with the two alternatives of abstraction and figuration. It was not until the mid-1950s that Irvin finally moved away from relying on figures and social realism in his work and embraced an approach closer to metaphor and the abstract. Irvin’s reputation began to swell in the art world as his paintings grew in merit, maturity of style, and value. He was invited to display his work at more and more exhibitions in both Britain and abroad. A new freedom to experiment also found its way into over his work as he ‘played’ with canvas size, colour, structure, shape, and composition. Later the artist began to experiment with the medium of his art. He changed from oil to acrylic in the early 1970s and had a short-lived foray into lithography in 1975. He then began a screenprinting career in 1980 with Advanced Graphics London. The collaborative approach of screenprinting, although a new and very different outlet from painting, still allowed Irvin to display many of his characteristic traits as an artist. He would quickly affirm his reputation as one of Britain’s foremost printmakers. The Albert Irvin Estate, run by his daughters Priscilla Hashmi and Celia Irvin, continues to promote his work and there are various exhibitions and events being planned for the near future, details of which will appear here. 阿爾伯特·艾文（Albert Irvin）是一位多產的英國藝術家，以他的豐富的繪畫，水彩畫，絲網印花和水泥而著稱。他出生在倫敦，在他一生中繼續生活和工作。他的藝術集中在捕捉和探索世界的經驗。 繪畫和愛爾文自己的生活之間的第一個主要聯繫在20世紀40年代初出現在北安普頓藝術學院。 1941年加入皇家空軍時，他不得不縮短學習時間，在二戰期間擔任導航員。 戰後伊爾文回到了他對藝術的熱情，1946年在倫敦金匠學院招收。他四年後畢業於國家設計文憑課程。 Irvin作為老師回到了1962年的戈德史密斯，在那里呆了二十多年。 在整個五十年代，Irvin通過他的繪畫開發了他獨特的文字意義風格。在他早期的職業生涯中，他與抽象和形象的兩種選擇戰鬥。直到20世紀50年代中期，伊文終於離開了他的工作中的數字和社會現實主義，並採取了一種更接近隱喻和抽象的方法。 愛爾文的聲譽開始在藝術世界中膨脹，因為他的作品在價值，作品的成熟度和價值上都有所增長。他被邀請在越來越多的英國和國外的展覽中展出他的作品。一個新的實驗自由也在自己的工作中發揮了作用，因為他與畫布尺寸，顏色，結構，形狀和構圖相配。 後來，藝術家開始嘗試他的藝術的媒介。他在20世紀70年代早期從油變成丙烯酸，並於1975年進行了一個短暫的平版印刷。然後，他在1980年與Advanced Graphics London開始了絲網印刷生涯。絲網印刷的合作方式雖然與繪畫有很大的不同，但仍然允許Irvin作為藝術家展示他的許多特徵。他很快肯定了他作為英國最重要的版畫家之一的聲譽。 由他的女兒Priscilla Hashmi和Celia Irvin經營的Albert Irvin莊園繼續推廣自己的工作，不久的將來還會舉辦各種展覽和活動，詳情將在這裡出現。