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Alex COLVILLE
Swimmer
1962
AGO Art Gallery of Ontario (Canada)
Three cars and a chair by Canadian painter Alex Colville (1920–2013)
"A righteous man cares for the needs of his animal, but the kindest acts of the wicked are cruel." ~ Proverbs 12:10
🎨 Alex Colville, "Dog and Priest", 1978 #LoveYourPetDay
Undead Kings and Demons done for Kingoms & Warfare, developed by Matt Colville's MCDM Productions. https://t.co/Y2PjCfn2C8
"Colville is different. For the art world, he was to some extent an outsider. But perhaps it was because he was not going where the art world was going that he became popular." ~ Andrew Hunter, curator at the Art Gallery of Ontario
🎨 Alex Colville, "Dog and Priest", 1978
@CecileVarry Alex Colville might be neat - he always had fun with the contrast of how controlled painting can be with things in the composition/framing being off or disobeying conventional composition
Crest of the Day from the Biggar Museum Exhibition: Ronald John Bilsland Colville, 2nd Baron Clydesmuir
(1917-1996)
Crest: A hind’s head erased Proper.
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@BPerrionni @albertopetro2 @Rebeka80721106 @agustin_gut @scastaldi9 @CristianeGLima @alleosa @yianniseinstein @matibo11 @ValerioLivia @maluisa_3 @anne_camozzi @ANNAMARIABIASI1 @mariadicuonzo1 @ampomata @Amyperuana @dianadep1 @marmelyr @CaterinaCategio @FriendArt_ @marialves53 @maype7 @BrindusaB1 @claudioborlotto @peac4love @bmarczewska @cecilia_fava @licprospero @RitaCobix @ritamay1 @cmont4560 @angela3nipoti1 @fra852 @paoloigna1 @mirianagrassi1 @semicvet50 @lagatta4739 @NadiaZanelli1 @SalaLettura @angelicadisogno @smc_su @Biagio960 @VicoLudovico @MaurilioVitto @Papryka5 @BaroneZaza70 @smarucci461 The rider twists around in her saddle
Looking back at the monument
While her horse keeps plodding on
The French Cross, large and old
Memorializing an ethnic cleansing
That happened long, long ago
🎨 Alex Colville, "French Cross" (1988)
Matt Colville Debuts Illrigger Class for #DungeonAndDragons. https://t.co/UDPeIVsiSl
#DnD
The 1946 painting is, Infantry, near Nijmegen, Holland, by Alex Colville(1920-2013), a Canadian painter who served in the Royal Canandian Navy during World War II. The expression on the face of the first infantryman says it all about war. Public domain.