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Freddie Linsky
 

Born in London.

Also an art critic and a familiar face at press viewings at the major galleries and exhibitions in London.
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About the Artist

Freddie W. R. Linsky paints over and over, making us curious to know what is going on. It seems that one stroke is being repeated - the same stroke or one very close to it, hence the possibility of the infinite opening up of the structure of time.
This repetition perfectly renews the painting itself, as an experience of time, and space too. Identifying with the space of history, Freddie engages in the task of painting European art over-and-over again. Placing periods, movements and centuries into a fragment ironically leads to repetition. Every stroke greatly reinforces the preceding one, and yet wants to be wholly boldly new - that is, distinct to the earlier stroke.
Amid this multiplicity of relativity there is a rendering of effectual quiet between marks; between understatement and apparent furnishing assured tone. This abstract fluctuation links the all-over and focused space.
Given to the linear so that movement enters, the implication that space is mobilized begins to escape the lines as colour is flattened. Thus giving an ambiguity that is the figure and the ground. Yet all show a distinct compression of motif toward the top - that is, they have a right side up.
Reinvesting its grasshopper like strokes and semi-kaleidoscopic pattern, movement directs requisites of pace, direction and discontinuation. This persuades yet another interest in the solidity of time.
The colours are highly artificial; they are really cosmetic, consciously false. They are flirtatious and psychologically associated with ambiguity. This implies that the expression is not to be believed.

 
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Sunrise

2006
Acrylic on Paper
30 cm x 40 cm

A bold use of colour. Inspired by Monet's plein air habit of painting, drawing on the natural world that surrounds us all.

Homage to Michel Tapie

2006
Pen and Ink on Paper
13.5 cm x 21 cm

Paying homage to Michel Tapie, this work employs the 'spot and blotch' tecnique the late French critic wrote about and enjoyed so much. 'Spot and Blotch' was first used by the original members of the American abstract expressionism movement (1950's); but even as relatively new as the tecnique may be, examples of a primitive form of 'spot and blotch' were found in the cave paintings of Lascaux, France.

The Best Loved Elephant

2006
Acrylic and Ink on Paper
13.5 cm x 21 cm

The striking use of oriental caligraphy has the kanji like characters stampeding from the page, showing the new ascent of the East. One of the artist's most experimental works.

The Dance

2006
Acrylic on Paper
13.5 cm x 21 cm

An unrestrained distortion of colour and form embodying the spirit and animation of dancers. If one looks closely through the mists of the forms and colours it is almost possible to see the couple in Renoir's "Dance of the Bougival" (1883). "I took it as my duty to translate Renoir from French to English."

Agassi at Wimbledon

2006
Acrylic (monochromatic) on Paper
13.5 cm x 21 cm

The Serve

2006
Acrylic and Ink on Paper
13.5 cm x 21 cm

As the tennis player becomes progressively more abstract, Freddie Linsky limits himself to syncopated rhythmic forms that reflect the player's elasticity enabling an empathy beyond momentary realism.

Leonard III

2006
Acrylic on Paper
13.5 cm x 21 cm

It is to his friend and mentor, the great American socialite and racounteur or as Freddie Linsky calls him, "That lion amongst men," that he pays tribute. Absorbing the lessons of Japanese art, the cool tones and significant detail are treated with harmony. The artist wanted to express the positive message of his close friend, "People should be able to view this painting every morning when they wake and exclaim, 'This is the happiest day of my life.'" The yellow paint used in this work was specially created by his friend and dubbed 'Leonard Yellow'. "Not since Titian has a single particular colour had such an effect on me. If Titian used blood for his reds then surely sunshine was used for this yellow."
 
Education and biography
The artist's whole life has been dedicated to his art.
 
Future shows
Has been shown recently in Boston and West Palm Beach, Florida.
 
 
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