John anderson painter biography
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“John Anderson attempt among representation great unidentified painters
of representation 20th century…a painter who merits the
designation of master.”
-Garrett Caples
SF Niche Guardian
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STUDIES AND BIOGRAPHY:
1947 Born Melbourne, Victoria , Australia.
1966-68 Secondary Teacher's Cert., Melbourne Teachers' College.
1969 Diploma in Fine Art (Painting), RMIT
1970-73 Secondary Art Teacher, Victorian State System
1974-75 Travelled Europe and Asia with the assistance of the Australia Council, Visual Arts Board.
1975-81 Half time Artist / Secondary Teacher
1981-85 Part time Commercial Cray fisherman Victorian licence.
1986-03 Part time Lecturer in Painting, Drawing and Art History at Department of Art and Design – Chisholm Institute TAFE
2004-> John continues in full time art practice.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2012 Australian Art Review (May-June ) "John Anderson " by Trent Nathan
2009 ABC News S.A (25/3/2009) " Greenhills Gallery in Adelaide has a display of artworks
by John Anderson " video
2005 "Profiles John Anderson new paintings" - Art Almanac (Nov.'05)
2005 Jeff Makin, " Landscaping Australia- John Anderson: Recent Paintings",
- Herald Sun ( 21st Nov.'05)
2005 "Preview Arts- John Anderson: Recent Paintings" - The Sunday Age ( 20th Nov.'05)
2005 "Good Weekend-10 Things to do" - The Age Magazine ( 19TH Nov.'05)
2005 Ashley Crawford "John Anderson :Recent Paintings"- The Sunday Age (27th Nov.' 05)
2005 Dr Ro
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John David Anderson
(Nov. 25, 1932 – Nov. 13, 2011)
Anderson was a painter who combined surrealism and abstract expressionism to create paintings that embody automatism or “spontaneous painting”, with an emphasis on the inner psychic realms of the mind. Anderson was mentored by Gordon Onslow Ford, who was a part of the 1930’s Paris surrealist group surrounding Andre Breton.
Born in 1932, in Chicago, Anderson resolved to be a painter in 1954 after returning to the Midwest from serving in the Navy during the Korean War. After studying at the University of Illinois he traveled to study at Mexico City College and finally made his way to California to study at the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland. He would meet his mentor, Gordon Onslow Ford, in a chance encounter in the 1960’s, that would change his life forever.
Onslow Ford and his wife, Jacqueline, would dine one evening at Manka’s Restaurant in Inverness where Anderson was a dishwasher. The owner had let John display one of his paintings in the restaurant and it caught the eye of the surrealist painter. He invited the young Anderson to sit and have coffee that evening and later to a luncheon at Onslow Ford’s home on the Inverness ridge. That would eventually lead to an invitation to build a