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Description: | , Source Beckstones Art Gallery, Cumbria
WILLIAM CLAYTON
1934 - 2005
Born in 1934 he studied Art at Nottingham College of Art, after which he worked for a printing house where he received a thorough grounding in lettering and commercial design. During this time he was painting for his own enjoyment and studying technique, until in 1962 he set up his own studio to paint full time.
In 1965 he won first prize of the Holbrook Bequest and this painting was purchased for the Nottingham Castle Art Gallery. It was sent to the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition and illustrated in their catalogue. It was also shown in the British Pavilion at Expo ’67 in Montreal. As a result of this he received a commission from the Coventry Art Gallery and was sought after by private collectors throughout the world and many municipal galleries have his original works in their permanent collections. He exhibited regularly at the Summer Exhibition of the Royal Academy from 1965, and much of his work went to the United States.
He was known internationally for his trompe l’oeil style of painting and since the 1970’s had been described as the world’s leading exponent of this style. Trompe l’oeil, literally “cheat the eye”, refers specifically to paintings rendered in extremely fine detail to create the illusion of space and three-dimensional elements where only a flat surface exists. This “visual deception” is used to describe representational painting where the intention of the artist is to achieve a high degree of verisimilitude. Ideally such a painting would deceive the spectator into accepting it as the actual object depicted. This type of art has been held in popular esteem and was widely practised in Classical Greece and in the Italian Renaissance. The surrealism of such artist as Salvador Dali is an extension of trompe l’oeil, and the school of photorealism is a further development.
His early inspirations were Rubens and Sargent. One of the most experienced artists of his time, his meticulous attention to detail and composition have made his work very collectible. Because of his great concentration for every detail in his work, only a few paintings came from his easel each year.,
Accession number: NCM 1966-30 | Subjects: | politics object studies still life portraits warfare military | Temporal: | 1965 | Source: | Nottingham City Museums and Galleries | Creator: | by CLAYTON/William James Morley (1934-2005) | Identifier: | http://media.culturegrid.org.uk/mediaLib... | Go to resource |
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