Maîtresse and teaching (1973–1980s) Allen Jones (artist)

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.