Lynn Chadwick
Lynn Chadwick (* 24 novembre 1914 à Londres ; † 25 avril 2003 à Stroud, Gloucestershire) est un sculpteur anglais.
Lynn Chadwick est né à Londres en 1914. À 19 ans, après avoir été formé, il fait du dessin d’architecture à Londres, jusqu'en 1939. Il passe la guerre entre le Canada et les États-Unis. En 1940, il travaille dans le milieu agricole pendant un an. En 1947, il déménage à Gloucestershire et devient designer indépendant. C’est à cette époque, qu’il commence à faire des mobiles, dont l’un, en aluminium et en bois, sera présenté lors de l’Aluminum Development Stand à l’exposition Builders' Trades. C’est en 1950, que Lynn Chadwick fait sa première exposition en solo, à la galerie Gimpel fils à Londres. Jusqu’en 1954, il produira un grand nombre d’œuvres très différentes : mobile, meuble, textile…
En 1956, il reçoit son premier prix à la Biennale de Venise, c’est à partir de ce prix qu’il commence à s’imposer sur la scène de l’architecture contemporaine. Il est reconnu comme étant un talentueux successeur d’Henry Moore. En 1964, il reçoit le titre honorifique de CBE (compagnon de l’Empire britannique).
C’est dans la maison familiale, un manoir somptueux qui domine la vallée de Toadsmoor, Gloucestershire, que Lynn Chadwick est mort en 2003.
Son Oeuvre
Lion rugissant, 1960, Musée d'Israël, Jérusalem.
Lynn Chadwick est un sculpteur complet, puisque qu’il connaît aussi bien la pratique que le côté artistique de la sculpture, c’est pour cela que son travail est très moderne. Ses moulages, ses soudures forment des œuvres pleines de sens et de poésie.
Niveau influence Lynn Chadwick s’inspire de l’atmosphère du moment : pendant la guerre froide, ses sculptures étaient souvent dotées de formes rappelant des ailes d'oiseau ou des nageoires de poisson, des formes décrites par Herbert Read comme « la géométrie de la peur ». Peu à peu, les sculptures se sont « détendu » (comme l’atmosphère) : les personnages de Lynn Chadwick se retrouvent dans des positions beaucoup plus paisibles.
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Lynn Russell Chadwick, CBE RA (24 November 1914 – 25 April 2003) was an English sculptor and artist. Much of his work is semi-abstract sculpture in bronze or steel. His work is in the collections of MoMA in New York, the Tate in London and the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris.
Chadwick was born in the suburb of Barnes, in western London, and attended Merchant Taylors' School in Northwood. While there he expressed an interest in being an artist, though his art master suggested architecture was a more realistic option. Accordingly, Chadwick became a trainee draughtsman, working first at the offices of architects Donald Hamilton and then Eugen Carl Kauffman, and finally for Rodney Thomas.[4] Chadwick took great inspiration from Thomas, whose interest in contemporary European architecture and design had a significant effect on his development.[5] His training in architectural drawing was the only formal education he received as an artist. He recalled: "What it taught me was how to compose things, a formal exercise in composition, really, it has nothing to do with the building it represents".[6]
War service
In April 1941, having previously been a conscientious objector,[7] Chadwick volunteered to serve in the Fleet Air Arm,[5] and in 1941–1944 he served as a pilot during the Second World War escorting Atlantic convoys.
Beginnings as a sculptor
After the war, Chadwick returned to Rodney Thomas where he became involved in the design of trade-fair stands.
In March 1946, he won a £50 prize in a textile design competition, which led to a contract to produce more designs for Zika and Lida Ascher who had promoted the 's' removed competition and who owned a textile design firm. Around the same time, Chadwick was commissioned to make exhibition stands for the Aluminium Development Corporation.
Chadwick constructed his first mobile around 1947 – which originated from ideas first proposed by Rodney Thomas.[5] Very few of these works survive; they were made of wire, balsa wood and cut copper and brass shapes, often fish-like and sometimes coloured. Some were incorporated as decorative features in exhibition stands, while others found homes amongst Thomas and his circle. Later he developed ground supports for the mobiles, transforming them into what he called "stabiles". At the same time, he was designing fabrics and furniture.[9]
Recalling this period, Chadwick said:
I actually wanted to produce a sort of touchable object, a tangible object. I really wanted to do that rather than be involved with intangible things like architecture which was slightly intangible to me because it had meant, in my case, drawing after drawing after drawing for projects which were never realised. In my case, I wanted to do it to have some reality in front of me.
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