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| George Johnson | |
| Born | 1926 (age 81–82) Nelson, New Zealand |
| Nationality | New Zealander/Australian |
| Field | Painting |
| Training | Theo Schoon |
| Movement | Constructivism |
| Works | Mount of the Blue Triangle |
| Awards | Albury Art Prize 1966 Orange Art Prize |
George Johnson (b.1926 in Nelson, New Zealand) is an artist who made his name in Australia.
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Artistic career
Early career
Johnson studied art under the emigre artist and Bauhaus graduate Theo Schoon, who confirmed an early commitment to modernist art, especially Geometric Abstraction.
He graduated from Wellington Technical College in 1947.
Move to Australia
Johnson decided to relocate to Melbourne, Australia, in 1951 where he was soon drawn into contemporary art circles, mixing with Leonard French, Roger Kemp, Inge King, Julius Kane, Peter Graham, Clement Meadmore and others. He held his first solo exhibition there at the age of 30 in 1956, a selection of boldly geometric abstractions which set the art scene buzzing. By this time he was sharing a studio with French and the pair experienced increasing friction from the Heide Circle. This comprised a rival group of figurative modernists who were still trying to control the Contemporary Art Society, including Arthur Boyd, John Perceval, Charles Blackman and Robert Dickerson. The latter artists eventually formed the Antipodeans Group, staging an exhibition in August 1959, initially to make a stand against Johnson, French, Kemp and a growing number of non-objectivist followers, although increasingly to express their opposition to American Abstract Expressionism which they feared was about to overwhelm Australian art.
Johnson has remained unwaveringly committed to geometric abstraction in the many decades since, producing paintings that are stylistically and intellectually indebted to Russian Constructivism.
Bibliography
Johnson, George H. Art and the World Around Us: An Essay on Experimental Art, Parent and Child (Wellington, N.Z._ Vol. 3), No. 6, August 1957
Johnson, George H. Art Education: A Viewpoint’ Art Craft Teachers Association Magazine, (Victoria) No. 16, August 1973
See also
External links
- George Johnson at the Charles Nodrum Gallery
- Mount of the Blue Triangle 1986 at the Ballarat Fine Art Gallery
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