Art career Allen Jones (artist)

1 art career

1.1 teaching , exhibits (1961–63)
1.2 travel in united states , abroad (1964–69)
1.3 hatstand, table , chair (1970)
1.4 maîtresse , teaching (1973–1980s)
1.5 recent exhibitions , holdings (2000s)

art career
early teaching , exhibits (1961–63)

despite expulsion royal college, in january 1961 jones work included in young contemporaries 1961 exhibit. annual royal society of british artists exhibition described in press exhibition launched british pop art, young contemporaries helped expose england art of jones, david hockney, r. b. kitaj, billy apple, derek boshier, joe tilson, patrick caulfield, , peter blake, of whom variously influenced american pop. among works, jones entered several paintings of london buses on shaped canvases, afterwards put on display @ london west end gallery arthur tooth & sons. 1 of gallery s directors introduced jones work of american pop artists such andy warhol, roy lichtenstein , claes oldenburg, proved inspirational jones. in 1961, took job teaching lithography @ croydon college of art in london, remain until 1963. around time, jones influenced works of writers such friedrich nietzsche, sigmund freud, , carl jung. according jones, 1963 painting hermaphrodite, depicting fused male/female couples metaphors of creative act, draws both freud , nietzsche. in 1963, jones awarded prix des jeunes artistes @ paris biennale. following year, jones , other nouveau réalisme , pop artists such peter phillips , pauline boty featured in documentaries belgian director jean antoine, evelyne axell s husband.

travel in united states , abroad (1964–69)

intrigued toughness of american pop art, jones moved manhattan in 1964 , took studio @ chelsea hotel. in new york city, jones recollects learning present saying possible, , developed interest in making images tangible. year jones remained in city, discovered rich fund of imagery in sexually motivated popular illustration of 1940s , 1950s. according jones, art of time:

fetishism , transgressive world produced images liked because dangerous. personal obsessions. stood outside accepted canons of artistic expression , suggested new ways of depicting figure weren t dressed public consumption.

among other projects @ time, jones worked on three-dimensional illusionism obvious erotic components. when jones close friend peter phillips came new york on harkness fellowship in 1964, 2 years spent of time travelling throughout united states. jones style continued develop, , 1966 painting perfect match made explicit [his] subdued eroticism, adopting precise linear style means of emphasizing tactility.

in 1967, jones work along works of artists such piero gilardi , david hockney included in exhibition wedding of guglielmo achille cavellini s daughter. following year, when xartcollection exhibition series created in zürich, switzerland, jones , artists such max bill, getulio alviani, , richard hamilton among first included in company s multiples. until dissolved few years later, company s philosophy make contemporary art available large public industrially producing three-dimensional multiples, several artists work included on each. jones guest lecturer @ hochschule für bildende künste hamburg in germany 1968 1970, , in 1969 visiting professor @ university of south florida. 1968 set of prints, life class, among first works incorporate elements of sculpture. each print made of 2 halves, bottom being realistic pair of women s legs in tights, while upper halves drawn in 1940s fetishist graphic style representing secret face of british male desire in gloomy post-war years. further experimentation sculpture, jones has stated spent time giving figures grabbable quality, thought, why don t make them in 3 dimensions?

hatstand, table , chair (1970)

while living in london neighbourhood of chelsea in late 1960s, jones began working in sculpture. fibreglass sculpture chair, completed in 1969, marked start of series of life-size images of women furniture fetishist , sado-masochist overtones. first 3 sculptures each sculpted jones drawings, jones overseeing professional sculptor produced figures in clay. 3 female figures cast in plaster company specialised in producing shop mannequins. each of original 3 figures produced in edition of six.

jones first group of erotic fibreglass sculptures, of hatstand, table , chair gained international attention when exhibited in 1970. works met strong protests perceived misogyny, succeeded in making jones cultural hot potato . laura mulvey writing spare rib magazine suggested sculptures inspired latent castration anxiety. decade later, when put on display @ institute of contemporary arts in 1978, attacked stink bombs. 8 years later, on international women s day, chair damaged paint stripper while exhibited @ tate. according art historian , curator, marco livingstone, writing in 2004: more 3 decades later, these works still carry powerful emotive charge, ensnaring every viewer s psychology , sexual outlook regardless of age, gender or experience.

the severe reaction art world, feminists, , mainstream press after sculptures debut limit jones exhibition career in england on next several decades. when asked effect on career, jones quoted stating s collateral damage. wanted offend canons of accepted worth in art. found perfect image that, , s accident of history these works coincided arrival of militant feminism. roman polanski, elton john , gunter sachs owned piece @ 1 stage, 1 of sets selling @ auction in 2012 £2.6 million. sculptures have been referenced in stanley kubrick s 1971 film clockwork orange.

maîtresse , teaching (1973–1980s)

taikoo place, hong kong, showing hk quarry bay, tong chong street, allen jones sculpture city shadow security, pictured in 2009.

jones, photographer brian duffy, , air brush specialist philip castle commissioned collaborate on annual , salacious pirelli calendar in 1973, resulting in unique edition clive james later jokingly call pirelli calendar nobody bothered @ twice . in 1973, jones spent time guest lecturer @ university of california, los angeles, , after visiting japan in 1974, following year toured canada. jones designed barbet schroeder s 1975 film maîtresse. starring bulle ogier professional dominatrix ariane , gérard depardieu obsessed lover, film provoked controversy in united kingdom because of graphic depictions of sado-masochism.

dancers allen jones, hay s galleria in march 2011

by mid 1970s, again focusing on canvas , painting, , among notable works @ time santa monica shores in 1977. @ tate, work painted while guest lecturer @ university of california, los angeles in 1977, , later summer visiting director of studies in drawing , painting in alberta, canada, @ banff center school of fine arts. known taking on commissions, jones commissioned design hoarding fogal, hosiery manufacturer, @ basel station in 1978. walker art gallery in liverpool held large retrospective exhibition on work in 1979, , exhibit later travelled serpentine gallery in london. continuing travel, invited berlin university of arts guest professor 1982 1983. time, had largely returned playful stylisation in figure sculptures, including tango in 1984, life-size dancing couple made steel plate. in 1986, work included in venice biennale s art e scienza exhibition, alongside artists such brian eno , tony cragg, , year elected royal academician royal academy. opened in 1987, birch , conran first art gallery in soho, , inaugural show featured british pop artists such jones, sir peter blake, richard hamilton, , clive barker. 1990 1999, served trustee @ british museum, , in 2000 became emeritus trustee.

he has works held cass sculpture foundation. 1 of which, outdoor sculpture temple 1998, was

a response artifice of cultivated landscape... jones sought make sculpture used artifice distort scale , distance , manipulate our perception of space. jones s interest derived eighteenth-century landscape architects, did when introducing decorative buildings , follies schemes.

also, figure @ top of structure jones uses colour introduce notion of movement in figure, alternate arms of yellow , green in diagonally opposing positions.

recent exhibitions , holdings (2000s)

sculpture jones, designed whitaker malem.



sculpture jones @ georgsplatz hanover in germany.

jones continued artistic activity 2000s, , among other projects remember exhibition believe or not traveled galleria d arte maggiore g.a.m. in bologna (1999) museum of palazzo dei sette in orvieto (2002), both in italy. jones incorporated leatherwork whitaker malem. in recent years, jones has increasingly become known large steel sculptures, many of abstract in nature , feature intertwining figures. number of them displayed in outdoor exhibit in may 2015 @ art in park event held lake zurich. work included in number of public , private art collections; 3 of paintings in collection of centro de arte moderna of gulbenkian foundation in lisbon, , has pieces in ingram collection of modern british art.

in 2007, awarded honorary doctorate of arts southampton solent university. has had solo exhibitions @ wetterling teo gallery in stockholm , serge sorokko gallery. works featured in pop art portraits show @ national portrait gallery in london, , had dedicated room of watercolours, drawing , paintings @ tate britain. in 2008, given dedicated watercolour room @ royal academy of arts. in april 2013, work included in major exhibition @ national museum of wales in cardiff, titled pop , abstract, alongside work artists peter blake , bridget riley. parody of jones chair sculpture part of collection exhibited under name allen jones remake @ venus on manhattan gallery in new york in 2013. example of jones 1969 chair sculpture (as on fifty other works) remains @ tate, acquired in 2014. in november 2014, retrospective on jones opened @ royal academy of arts, running until january 2015 in london.