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Michael Kidner | Michael Kidner [British, b.1917] | Artist Michael Kidner Born: 11 September 1917, Kettering, England
Michael Kidner RA, Creationism? Michael Kidner read History and Anthropology at Cambridge University from 1936 to 1939 before studying landscape architecture at Ohio State University from 1940 to 1941. After five years in the Canadian army he trained himself as an artist and moved to Paris. He first came to prominence in the 1960s following his first solo exhibition at St Hilda’s College, Oxford in 1959. Kidners distinctive style was formed after he came under the influence of the American Expressionists. He was a pioneer in the Op Art movement. The Serpentine Gallery, London held a retrospective in 1984, thereby introducing a new generation of British artists to his work. Kidner is also a leading sculptor and printmaker and has worked with computer generated images. In many of his two- and three-dimensional works he uses a colour-coded pattern which distorts the viewers typical habits of perception. Recent solo exhibitions Public collections Publications
Michael Kidner | Michael Kidner [British, b.1917]
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Michael Kidner |
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