Ben Nicholson
Ben Nicholson is a British painter born the April 10th 1894 with Denham and dead the February 6th 1982 with London.
Initially influenced by the cubists, the work of Nicholson gradually will evolve to a geometric abstraction near to that practiced by Mondrian. The great talent which it developed in the neoplasticism, opened to him the doors of many movements of abstract art of the years 1930. Present in Paris at that time, it takes part in the movement Abstraction-Creation, and will be founding member of LINKS ONE in 1933 (inter alia, at the sides of Paul Nash and Henry Moore); it also joined in the edition of the review Circle, accompanied by Jean Louis Martin and Naum Gabo (in 1937).
It turns over to the United Kingdom and launches out in the execution of many dead nature geometrical (years: of at the end of 1938 to 1958). In subtle balance between abstraction and figuration (synthetic tendency cubism ) the fabrics of Nicholson exploit the various reliefs and loans.
Prize winner of the first price Guggenheim in 1956 and of the price of painting of Sao Paulo the following year, its works are exposed in the collections of the Tate Gallery of London, inter alia.
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