Jack Chambers

Jack Chambers ( born March 25, 1931 in London / Ontario, † April 13, 1978 ibid ) was a Canadian painter and filmmaker.

Chambers attended from 1946 to 1949, the H. B. Beal Technical School and then studied briefly at the University of Western Ontario. In 1953 he toured Europe and met in France Pablo Picasso, who recommended a course of study at the San Fernando Academy of Fine Arts in Madrid him. After graduating, he returned in 1961 to London. Here he lived as a painter and produced 1964-1970 eight films. After clashes with the National Gallery of Canada in 1967, he founded the Canadian Artists Representation, a copyright organization, which he headed until 1975. His artistic approach presented Chambers in 1969 in the essay Perceptual Realism is, in which he anknüpfte the phenomenology of the French philosopher Maurice Merleau -Ponty.

The paintings Chambers' were, inter alia, exhibited in the Nations Gallery of Canada, the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Musée d'Art contemporaine de Montréal, the Musée des Beaux Arts de Montreal and the Vancouver Art Gallery. 1970 organized the Art Gallery of Ontario and the Vancouver Art Gallery a retrospective work for him. 2011, the exhibition Light from the darkness, silver paintings and film work of Jack Chambers was held at the Museum in his hometown.

Movies

  • Mosaic ( 1964-65 )
  • Hybrid, 1966 (1966, col. , Sil. , 15 min. )
  • Little Red Riding Hood ( with Greg Curnoe and James Reaney ), 1967
  • R -34, 1967
  • Circle, 1968-69
  • The Hart of London, 1968-70
  • C.C.C.I., 1970 -
  • Still Life, 1970 -

Swell

  • The Canadian Encyclopedia - Jack Chambers
  • Senses of cinema - Jack Chambers
  • Jack Chambers ( painter) at the Internet Movie Database (English)
  • C5 contemporary art - profiles: Jack Chambers
  • The Star: From the darkness, a ray of light rekindled
  • Painter (Canada)
  • Film Director
  • Canadian
  • Born in 1931
  • Died in 1978
  • Man
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