Joe Allen (painter)
Joe Allen ( born 1955 in Airdrie, Scotland ) is a British painter.
Life
Parallel to visit the secondary school, he received private lessons from the Scottish landscape painter CM Cameron and attended drawing classes at the Glasgow School of Art After graduation, he studied in London at the St. Martins School of Art and the Chamber corrugated School of Art, where he Bachelor the of Arts with Honours acquired in Fine Art. The subsequent studies as a master student at the Royal Academy School in London, he graduated with a Master of Art Degree.
In 1983 he began work as a painter in addition to a lecturer, first at colleges in Newcastle and London, then at the Centro de Arte Verrocchio in Siena. From 1984 to 2007 he taught as a professor at the European Art Academy in Trier. He lives in London and Trier.
Joe Allen moves with his pictures on the border between figurative and nonrepresentational painting. He is looking for new forms of expression for the representation of the human condition to emulate without fashionable trends. If he alternates the formats between very large ( 275 x 320 cm ) and very small ( 18 x 24 cm) or experimenting with the adding of organic materials to the color - very often applied in various gray and black tones - areas blunt, plastic or make it more transparent, then always in the interest of artistic expression. Joe Allen is a " pictor doctus " in the classical sense: Painting is always critical study of the history, art history, politics, and literature for him. So he has in different series, among others dealt with the works of Diego Velasquez, John Constable or Harold Pinter.