Index to artist biography of albert

Realistic painting

Irvin was born in Bermondsey, London on 21 August He was evacuated from there during World War II, to study at the Northampton School of Art between and , before being conscripted into the Royal Air Force as a navigator.
index to artist biography of albert

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Albert Irvin OBE (British, b) is an Abstract Expressionist painter, whose large-scale works are among the most compelling and distinctive produced in Britain today.


Types of realism painting

Influenced in the early years by the Dutch 17th century school of flower painting and by the botanical draughtsmanship of Gerard Van Spændonck, Albert Williams soon discarded the .
Realism artists
Filmed in his gloriously paint-splattered studio, Albert Irvin OBE RA discusses the motivations and processes behind his colourful canvases with curator and writer Hans Ulrich Obrist.