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Emmy Bridgwater, The Fountain (1945), Oil on panel.
Emmy Bridgwater, The Fountain (1945), Oil on panel.

Emma Frith Bridgwater (November 10, 1906 - March 13, 1999),[1] known as Emmy Bridgwater, was an English artist and poet associated with the Surrealist movement. Events 1444 - Battle of Varna: The crusading forces of King Vladislaus III of Varna (aka Ulaszlo I of Hungary and Wladyslaw Year 1906 ( MCMVI) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting Events 1138 - Cardinal Gregorio Conti is elected Antipope as Victor IV, succeeding Anacletus II. Year 1999 ( MCMXCIX) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1999 Gregorian calendar) England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland The definition of an artist is wide-ranging and covers a broad spectrum of Activities to do with creating Art, practicing the Arts and/or demonstrating A poet is a person who writes Poetry. Etymology From the Ancient greek: ποιέω, poieō: "I make or compose" Surrealism is a cultural movement that began in the early-1920s and is best known for the visual artworks and writings of the group members

Based at times in both Birmingham and London, she was a significant member of the Birmingham Surrealists and of the London-based British Surrealist Group, and was an important link between the surrealists of the two cities. Birmingham ( ˈbɜːmɪŋəm Ber -ming-um London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom. Birmingham Surrealists were an informal grouping of artists and intellectuals associated with the Surrealist movement in art based in Birmingham, England Eileen Agar (1899-1991 Emmy Bridgwater (1906-1999 David Gascoyne (1916-2001 Humphrey Jennings (1907-1950 [2]

Michel Remy, professor of art history at the University of Nice and author of Surrealism in Britain, describes her influence as "of the same importance to British surrealism as the arrival of Dalí in the ranks of the French surrealists". The University of Nice Sophia Antipolis (Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis is a university located in Nice, France and neighboring areas Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech 1st Marquis of Púbol (May 11 1904 &ndash January 23 1989 was a Spanish Catalan Surrealist [3]

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Biography

Emmy Bridgwater was born in the upmarket Edgbaston district of Birmingham, the third daughter of a chartered accountant and Methodist. Edgbaston is an area in the city of Birmingham in England. It is also a formal district, managed by its own District committee. Birmingham ( ˈbɜːmɪŋəm Ber -ming-um Chartered Accountant (CA is the title used by members of certain professional Accountancy associations in the British Commonwealth countries and Ireland Methodism is a movement within Protestant Christianity represented by a number of denominations and organizations Showing an early interest in painting and drawing, she studied under Bernard Fleetwood-Walker at the Birmingham School of Art for three years from 1922 before further study at a local art school in Oxford paid for by work as a secretary. Bernard Fleetwood-Walker ( 22 March, 1893 - 30 January, 1965) was an English Artist and teacher of Painting. The Birmingham School of Art was a municipal art school based in the centre of Birmingham, England. Year 1922 ( MCMXXII) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Oxford is currently bidding for the 2010 Wikimania Conference Oxford () is a city, and the County town of Oxfordshire, [4]

Emmy Bridgwater, Untitled (1941), Pen and ink on paper
Emmy Bridgwater, Untitled (1941), Pen and ink on paper

Bridgwater's aesthetic direction was transformed by attending the London International Surrealist Exhibition in 1936, where she met Conroy Maddox, John Melville and Robert Melville - the key figures of the Birmingham Surrealists. The International Surrealist Exhibition was held from 11 June to 4 July 1936 at the New Burlington Galleries in London, England Year 1936 ( MCMXXXVI) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Conroy Maddox ( 27 December 1912 &ndash 14 January 2005) was an English Surrealist painter, collagist John Melville ( August 25 1902 - December 8 1986) was an English surrealist artist described by Michel Remy in his book Robert Melville ( December 31 1905 - March 1986 was an English Art critic and Journalist. Birmingham Surrealists were an informal grouping of artists and intellectuals associated with the Surrealist movement in art based in Birmingham, England From this point on her work began to explore the more fearful sides of the subconscious, often using automatist techniques. Automatism has taken on many forms the Automatic writing and drawing initially (and still to this day practiced by surrealists can be compared to similar or perhaps [5] Studying for periods at the Grosvenor School of Modern Art in London during 1936 and 1937 she retained a base in Birmingham and exhibited as a member of the Birmingham Group throughout the late 1930s, also exhibiting at the London Gallery after being introduced to owner ELT Mesens by Robert Melville. Year 1936 ( MCMXXXVI) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1937 ( MCMXXXVII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Disambiguation you may be searching for the Birmingham School. The 1930s were described as an abrupt shift to more radical and conservative lifestyles as countries were struggling to find a solution to the Great Depression. ELT Mesens (Edouard Léon Théodore (1903 &ndash 1971 was a Belgian Artist and Writer associated with the Belgian Surrealist movement [1]

In early 1940 she officially joined the British Surrealist Group, whose meetings she was to attend for much of the following decade. Year 1940 ( MCMXL) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full 1940 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Eileen Agar (1899-1991 Emmy Bridgwater (1906-1999 David Gascoyne (1916-2001 Humphrey Jennings (1907-1950 Forming a close friendship with Edith Rimmington and having a brief but intense affair with Toni del Renzio, she contributed to numerous international surrealist publications (including del Renzio's Arson: an ardent review) and held her first solo exhibition at Jack Bilbo's Modern Gallery in 1942. Antonino Romanov del Renzio dei Rossi di Castellone e Venosa (Toni del Renzio ( 15 April 1915 - 7 January 2007) an artist and writer of Year 1942 ( MCMXLII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (the link will display the full 1942 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. [1] In 1947 Bridgwater was one of six English artists chosen by André Breton to exhibit at the Exposition Internationale du Surrealisme at the Galerie Maeght in Paris - the last major international surrealist group exhibition. Year 1947 ( MCMXLVII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1947 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. André Breton (in French ɑ̃dʀe bʀəˈtɔ̃ ( February 19, 1896 &ndash September 28, 1966) was a French Writer, Paris (ˈpærɨs in English; in French) is the Capital of France and the country's largest city [3]

By the late 1940s, however, Bridgwater was having to spend increasing amounts of time caring for her aging mother and disabled sister. The 1940s decade ran from 1940 to 1949 Events and trends The 1940s was a period between the radical 1930s and the conservative 1950s which also leads the period to be In 1953 she moved to Stratford-upon-Avon to take on this responsibility full-time and effectively suspended her artistic career. Year 1953 ( MCMLIII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Stratford-upon-Avon (ˌstrætfɚd əpɒn ˈɛɪvən is a Market town and Civil parish in south Warwickshire, England. [1]

During the 1970s Bridgwater resumed work, largely in collage, and her earlier work featured in numerous surrealist retrospective exhibitions over the following decades. This article is about the Decade 1970-1979 For the Year 1970 see 1970. A collage (From the coller to glue is a work of formal art primarily in the Visual arts, made from an assemblage of different forms thus creating a new whole [6] Ceasing work in the mid-1980s, she died in Solihull in 1999. The 1980s was the decade spanning from January 1 1980 to December 31 1989. Solihull (ˈsɒlɪhʌl or /ˈsəʊlihʌl/ is a large town in the West Midlands of England, with a population of 94753 Year 1999 ( MCMXCIX) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1999 Gregorian calendar) [1]

Work

Emmy Bridgwater's work in the 1930s and 1940s largely consisted of paintings and pen and ink drawings. The 1930s were described as an abrupt shift to more radical and conservative lifestyles as countries were struggling to find a solution to the Great Depression. The 1940s decade ran from 1940 to 1949 Events and trends The 1940s was a period between the radical 1930s and the conservative 1950s which also leads the period to be Her personal iconography often featured organic imagery such as birds, eggs, leaves, fruit and tendril-like automatist lines depicted with a sense of "surrealist black humour and violence", often within a dreamlike landscape. From the 1970s onwards she also worked in collage. This article is about the Decade 1970-1979 For the Year 1970 see 1970. A collage (From the coller to glue is a work of formal art primarily in the Visual arts, made from an assemblage of different forms thus creating a new whole [4]

Critical reaction

Emmy Bridgwater, Night Work is About to Commence (1943), Oil on board.
Emmy Bridgwater, Night Work is About to Commence (1943), Oil on board.

In Arson: an ardent review Toni del Renzio wrote of Bridgwater's paintings: "We do not see these pictures. Antonino Romanov del Renzio dei Rossi di Castellone e Venosa (Toni del Renzio ( 15 April 1915 - 7 January 2007) an artist and writer of We hear their cries and are moved by them. Our own entrails are drawn painfully from us and twisted into the pictures whose significance we did not want to realise. "[7]

Robert Melville described Bridgwater's paintings as depicting "the saddening, half-seen 'presences' encountered by the artist on her journey through the labyrinths of good and evil . Robert Melville ( December 31 1905 - March 1986 was an English Art critic and Journalist. . . although they are dreamlike in their ambiguity they are realistic documents from a region of phantasmal hopes and murky desires where few stay to observe and fewer still remain clear-sighted. "[8]

Her obituary in The Independent said "Her paintings show an ability to enter a personal dream world and transform the visions she experienced there into bold, unselfconscious, emotionally charged landscapes which more often than not strike into the very depths of one's mind. The Independent is a British compact Newspaper published by Tony O'Reilly 's Independent News & Media. Using a limited palette and painting thickly, she was able to bring together seemingly unrelated objects which she used to fill desolate landscapes, giving the paintings a narrative quality of her own making. "[5]

Exhibitions

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External links

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f Rüll, Lisa (2000), “Emmy Bridgwater: a Family and Artistic Chronology”, in Sidey, Surrealism in Birmingham 1935-1954, Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery, pp. 52-56, ISBN 0-7093-0235-5 .
  2. ^ EMMY BRIDGWATER (1906-99) Modern British Surrealist The Leicester Galleries, London
  3. ^ a b Remy, Michel (2000), “Towards The Magnetic North: Surrealism in Birmingham”, in Sidey, Surrealism in Birmingham 1935-1954, Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery, pp. 10, ISBN 0-7093-0235-5 .
  4. ^ a b Rüll, Lisa (2000), “Lost and found - family, mythology and Emmy Bridgwater”, in Sidey, Surrealism in Birmingham 1935-1954, Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery, pp. 37-42, ISBN 0-7093-0235-5 .
  5. ^ a b Obituary: Emmy Bridgwater Jeremy Jenkinson, The Independent, May 26, 1999
  6. ^ Emmy Bridgwater, Biographical Information The Surrealism Server, 1994-1996
  7. ^ del Renzio, Toni (1942), “The Uncouth Invasion (The paintings of Emmy Bridgwater)”, Arson: an ardent review 
  8. ^ Melville, Robert (8 November 1947), “Challenging Pictures at Coventry Art Circle Exhibition”, Coventry Standard 
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