Colin Self Animal Prints
British, b. 1941
Colin E Self (born 1941 in Rackheath, Norfolk) is an English Pop Artist, whose work has addressed the theme of Cold War politics. As a student at the Slade School of Fine Art from 1961 to 1963 Colin Self received encouragement for his drawings and collages from the artists David Hockney and Peter Blake. Visits to the United States and Canada in 1962 and 1965 heightened his consciousness of Cold War politics and events such as the Cuban Missile Crisis and the CND marches led him to create highly-innovative prints such as Nuclear Bomber No.1 (1963), one of the earliest multiple plate etchings, and paintings such as ‘Waiting Women and Two Nuclear Bombers’ (1962–63). He explored the relationship between violence and sexual threat in drawings of glamorous models and his iconic ‘Leopard-skin Nuclear Bomber’ sculptures.
Following his trip to the US in 1965 he produced a series of drawings based on American nuclear fall-out shelters, Art Deco cinema interiors and of hot dogs, which he described as being ‘as important a 20th century development as a rocket.’ Richard Hamilton called him ‘the best draughtsman in England since William Blake.’ During the 60s Self showed with the Robert Fraser Gallery, London. Self was a central figure in the 1960s boom in printmaking. Drawing images from a variety of commercial sources, he created the Power and Beauty series of screen prints (1968) at Editions Alecto while his etching suite Prelude to the 1000 Temporary Objects of Our Time (1970–71) sought to provide a unique record of society in the event of its possible destruction.
Suspicious of the commercial art world Self worked in isolation during the 1970s, producing atmospheric watercolours and charcoals of the landscapes of his native county Norfolk, and Scotland. A trip to the former Soviet Union in 1985-6 provided further stimulus to his explorations of Cold War culture. His collages from the 1980s to the present day combine his interest in Surrealist juxtaposition and the subconscious, with an inventive visual imagination. Some of these works such as ‘Burning Man Jumping from Building’ (1983) and ‘New York Disaster’ (1998) appear remarkably prescient in the light of events such as the attack on the World Trade Center in 2001, while others create lighter, often humorous narratives from found material in everyday life – an extension of the language of Pop art. In 1997 the Tate Gallery held a show of all its holdings of his work. Since 2000 Self has worked on his ‘Odyssey/Iliad’ suite of etchings, in which the artist has returned to his 1960s technique of multiple-plate etching to re-tell the classical story by Homer using contemporary found-imagery and themes.
A retrospective of his work entitled 'Colin Self: Art in the Nuclear Age' was held at Pallant House Gallery in 2008. Public collections holding work by Colin Self include Arts Council of Great Britain, Museum of Modern Art, Pallant House, Tate Gallery and The Priseman Seabrook Collection.to
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Artist: Colin Self
Crab, Plaice and Prawns
By Colin Self
Located in New York, NY
A contemporary of David Hockney and Peter Blake, Colin Self is an important British printmaker whose innovative etching techniques and novel use of found materials have defined his d...
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Early 2000s Expressionist Colin Self Animal Prints
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Drypoint
Power and Beauty No. 5, Pop Art Elephant Screenprint by Colin Self
By Colin Self
Located in Long Island City, NY
Power and Beauty No. 5 by Colin Self, British (1941)
Date: 1969
Screenprint, signed, titled and numbered in pencil
Edition of 65/75
Size: 26.75 x 41.25 in. (67.95 x 104.78 cm)
Publis...
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1960s Pop Art Colin Self Animal Prints
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Power and Beauty No. 1, Pop Art Cat Screenprint by Colin Self
By Colin Self
Located in Long Island City, NY
Power and Beauty No 1 by Colin Self, British (1941)
Date: 1969
Screenprint, signed, titled and numbered in pencil
Edition of 74/75
Size: 26.5 x 41 in. (67.31 x 104.14 cm)
Publisher: ...
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1960s Pop Art Colin Self Animal Prints
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Dead Bird for Craigie No. 2
By Colin Self
Located in New York, NY
A contemporary of David Hockney and Peter Blake, Colin Self is an important British printmaker whose innovative etching techniques and novel use of found materials have defined his diverse oeuvre. Yet unlike most artists associated with Pop Art, Self eschewed glossy, colorful bombast for nuanced drawings in a limited palette. Self's imagery has ranged from the geopolitical -- nuclear bombers, fallout shelters; to American icons -- hot dogs, Coca Cola cans; to the everyday -- intimate scenes of animals and plants, and whimsical figure drawings. This arresting portrait of a raven's body is executed in moody shades of black and grey. A tangle of short, sharp marks swirls against the white background, resembling flying birds. At the top, hand written text reads: "dead bird...
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Early 2000s Expressionist Colin Self Animal Prints
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Drypoint
Power and Beauty No. 4, Pop Art Screenprint by Colin Self
By Colin Self
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Colin Self
Title: Power and Beauty No. 4
Year: 1969
Medium: Screenprint, signed and titled in ink
Edition: 75
Size: 41 x 26 inches
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1960s Pop Art Colin Self Animal Prints
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Screen
Cat with Red Claws and a Bird
By Colin Self
Located in New York, NY
Once a peer of David Hockney and Peter Blake during school, Colin Self is an important contemporary British printmaker whose innovative etching techniques and novel use of found mate...
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Early 2000s Colin Self Animal Prints
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Drypoint
Power and Beauty No. 6 (Peacock), Pop Art Screenprint by Colin Self
By Colin Self
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Colin Self
Title: Power and Beauty No. 6
Year: 1969
Medium: Screenprint, signed, numbered and titled in ink
Edition: 75
Size: 26 x 41 inches
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1960s Pop Art Colin Self Animal Prints
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Screen
Power and Beauty No. 2, Contemporary Screenprint by Colin Self
By Colin Self
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Colin Self
Title: Power and Beauty No. 2
Year: 1969
Medium: Serigraph, signed and titled in ink
Edition: 75
Size: 26 x 41 inches
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1960s Pop Art Colin Self Animal Prints
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Screen
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