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Newzones is honouring a living Canadian artistic legend this month. Fifty - Years of Abstraction (running April 24 - June 12) is a tribute to Saskatchewan painter William Perehudoff, who has been creating abstract conceptual works that deal with bold shape and colour since the 1950s.
Perehudoff, now 92-years-old, has spent most of his life in Saskatchewan, but became a journeyman pupil/colleague of such famous artists as French Cubist Amédée Ozenfant in New York and painter Kenneth Noland. Perehudoff's formal education ended in fourth-grade, but his travels of the US and Europe and his intensive study of stripped forms eventually made him a respected master of his craft and recognized world-wide. He married landscape painter Dorothy Knowles in 1952 and made his way back to western Canada, where he made a living as a commercial artist.
The iconic painter became a Member of the Order of Canada in 1999. In 2001, Perehudoff stopped painting because of his deteriorating health. Newzones' Fifty celebrates five decades of abstract art by Perehudoff and the hand-selected body of work (by directors Helen and Tamar Zenith) encapsulates the amazing career of one of Canada's artistic treasures.
William Perehudoff: Fifty Years of Abstraction
Posted by Sean Young in Culture Snacks on Apr 19 2010 12:43
Newzones is honouring a living Canadian artistic legend this month. Fifty - Years of Abstraction (running April 24 - June 12) is a tribute to Saskatchewan painter William Perehudoff, who has been creating abstract conceptual works that deal with bold shape and colour since the 1950s.
Perehudoff, now 92-years-old, has spent most of his life in Saskatchewan, but became a journeyman pupil/colleague of such famous artists as French Cubist Amédée Ozenfant in New York and painter Kenneth Noland. Perehudoff's formal education ended in fourth-grade, but his travels of the US and Europe and his intensive study of stripped forms eventually made him a respected master of his craft and recognized world-wide. He married landscape painter Dorothy Knowles in 1952 and made his way back to western Canada, where he made a living as a commercial artist.
The iconic painter became a Member of the Order of Canada in 1999. In 2001, Perehudoff stopped painting because of his deteriorating health. Newzones' Fifty celebrates five decades of abstract art by Perehudoff and the hand-selected body of work (by directors Helen and Tamar Zenith) encapsulates the amazing career of one of Canada's artistic treasures.
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