Mary Fedden 瑪麗·費登 (1915-2012) Naive Art Primitivism British
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Mary Fedden, OBE (14 August 1915 – 22 June 2012) was a British artist.
Sometimes mistakenly described as the daughter of Roy Fedden (who was in fact her uncle, as was Romilly Fedden), Mary Fedden was born in Bristol where she attended the city's Badminton School. She studied at the Slade School of Fine Arts, London from 1932 to 1936. She then returned to Bristol where she painted and taught until World War II broke out. After the war was over, Fedden developed her own style of flower paintings and still lifes, reminiscent of artists such as Matisse and Braque.
In 1951, Mary Fedden married the artist Julian Trevelyan. She went on to teach painting at the Royal College of Art from 1956 to 1964, the first woman tutor to teach in the Painting School. Her pupils included David Hockney and Allen Jones. She subsequently taught at the Yehudi Menuhin School in Cobham, Surrey, from 1965 to 1970.
In 1995, she acknowledged in an interview in The Artist magazine:
I really float from influence to influence…. I found the early Ben Nicholsons fascinating as were the paintings of his wife Winifred. I also admire the Scottish artist Anne Redpath and the French painter Henri Hayden.
Fedden’s subjects are often executed in a bold, expressive style with vivid and contrasting colours, although her work of 2005-6 uses a narrower tonal range. Her still lifes are often placed in front of a landscape, as she enjoyed the contrasting of disparate, even quirky elements. When using watercolours she emphasised the rough texture of her favourite Indian papers.
Fedden exhibited in one-person shows throughout the UK every year from 1950 until her death in 2012. These included the Redfern Gallery, London from 1953, the New Grafton Gallery, London from the 1960s, the Hamet Gallery from 1970, the Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, Bohun Gallery, Henley on Thames from 1984 and at the Beaux Arts Gallery, London in the 1990s. A major exhibition of her work was held at the Royal West of England Academy in 1996.
She also received several commissions for murals, notably the Festival of Britain in 1951, the P&O liner Canberra in 1961, Charing Cross Hospital in 1980 (along with her husband, the artist Julian Trevelyan), Colindale Hospital in 1985, and for schools in Bristol, Hertfordshire and London. Her work can be found in numerous public and private collections such as the Chantrey Bequest for the Tate Gallery, Contemporary Art Society, and the City art galleries of Carlisle, Hull, Bristol, Edinburgh and Sheffield.
In 1995 the writer and critic Mel Gooding wrote a monograph on her work tracing her long career up to her marriage to Julian Trevelyan and their life together on the Thames at Chiswick, London. In 2007, a second book on Fedden written by Christopher Andreae was published, tracing her whole career up to 2006.
From 1984, Fedden held the post of President of the RWA, up until 1988, the same year her husband Julian Trevelyan died. She is an academician of the Royal Academy and has received an honorary doctorate from the University of Bath. She has also received an O.B.E. and an honorary degree from the University of Durham (2009) for her work.
For many years, Fedden was a close friend of the former television presenter, Anna Ford. Fedden remained a prolific and popular painter until her death in 2012. She continued to live and work in the studio she shared with her husband from the 1940s on the River Thames, London, She died, aged 96, in London.
瑪麗·費登，OBE（八月十四日1915年至1922年2012年6月）是英國的藝術家。
有時錯誤地描述為羅伊·費登（誰是事實上她的叔叔，因為是羅米利·費登），瑪麗·費登出生於英國布里斯托爾，她參加了城市的羽毛球學校的女兒。她就讀於美術學院斯萊德，倫敦1932年至1936年，她又在哪裡她畫的，教，直到第二次世界大戰爆發後回到布里斯托爾。戰爭結束後，Fedden開發了自己的花畫和靜物畫，讓人聯想到藝術家如馬蒂斯，布拉克的風格。
1951年，瑪麗·費登結婚的藝人朱利安·特里維廉。她繼續教繪畫藝術的皇家學院1956年至1964年，第一位女教師在畫派任教。她的學生包括大衛·霍克尼和艾倫·瓊斯。她隨後任教於梅紐因學校科巴姆，薩里，1965年至1970年。
1995年，她承認在藝術家雜誌採訪：
我真的從浮動影響，影響....我發現早期的奔Nicholsons迷人的是他的妻子溫妮的畫作。我也很佩服蘇格蘭藝術家安妮·雷德帕斯和法國畫家亨利·海登。
Fedden的對象往往是一個大膽的，富有表現力的風格與生動鮮明的色彩，執行，儘管她的工作2005-6採用了更窄的色調範圍。她的靜物經常被放置在風景前，她享有不同的對比，甚至古怪的元素。當使用水彩她強調，她最喜歡的印度報紙粗糙的質感。
Fedden每年展出一個人顯示了整個英國自1950年，直到她在2012年去世，這些從1953年包括雷德芬畫廊，倫敦，新的格拉夫頓畫廊，倫敦從20世紀60年代，在Hamet畫廊從1970年阿諾菲尼畫廊，布里斯托爾，波鴻畫廊，泰晤士河上亨利從1984年，並在美術學院畫廊，倫敦在20世紀90年代。她的作品的大型展覽在英格蘭學院西禦於1996年舉行。
她還收到一些佣金壁畫，尤其是英國的節在1951年，P＆O襯墊堪培拉於1961年，查林十字醫院於1980年（連同她的丈夫，藝術家朱利安·特里維廉），Colindale醫院於1985年，在布里斯托爾學校，赫特福德郡和倫敦。她的作品在許多公共和私人收藏，如的Chantrey遺贈的泰特美術館，當代藝術協會，卡萊爾，赫爾，布里斯托爾，愛丁堡和謝菲爾德市美術館被發現。
1995年，作家和評論家梅爾·古丁寫了一篇關於她的工作跟踪她漫長的職業生涯了她的婚姻朱利安·特里維廉在奇西克，倫敦他們共同生活在泰晤士河上的一本專著。 2007年，由克里斯托弗ANDREAE寫在Fedden第二本書出版，追踪她的整個職業生涯到2006年。
從1984年，Fedden舉行的RWA，同比總裁一職，直到1988年，同年她的丈夫朱利安·特里維廉死亡。她是英國皇家科學院院士，並獲得榮譽博士學位從巴斯大學。她還收到了O.B.E.和榮譽學位杜倫（2009）大學的她的工作。
多年來，Fedden是前電視節目主持人，安娜福特的親密朋友。 Fedden仍然是一個多產的畫家流行，直到她去世於2012年她繼續生活和工作中，她與丈夫分享了20世紀40年代泰晤士河，倫敦的工作室，她死了，96歲，在倫敦。