Austin Osman Spare: A collection of 77 works (HD)

BOOKS about Austin Osman Spare:
[1] AUSTIN OSMAN SPARE : THE LIFE & LEGEND OF LONDON'S LOST ARTIST by Phil Baker --- https://bit.ly/2IijIFM
[2] AUSTIN OSMAN SPARE : THE OCCULT LIFE OF LONDON'S LEGENDARY ARTIST by Phil Baker --- https://bit.ly/2P8Qrhh

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Austin Osman Spare: A collection of 77 works (HD)

Description: "Austin Osman Spare was an English artist who worked as both a draughtsman and a painter. Influenced by symbolism and art nouveau his art was known for its clear use of line. He developed idiosyncratic magical techniques including automatic writing, automatic drawing and sigilization based on his theories of the relationship between the conscious and unconscious self.

Born into a working-class family in Snow Hill in London, Spare grew up in Smithfield and then Kennington, taking an early interest in art. Gaining a scholarship to study at the Royal College of Art in South Kensington, he trained as a draughtsman, while also taking a personal interest in Theosophy. Alongside a string of personal exhibitions, he also achieved much press attention for being the youngest entrant at the 1904 Royal Academy summer exhibition.

After publishing two short-lived art magazines, Form and The Golden Hind, during the First World War he was conscripted into the armed forces and worked as an official war artist. Moving to various working class areas of South London over the following decades, Spare lived in poverty, but continued exhibiting his work to varying success. With the arrival of surrealism onto the London art scene during the 1930s, critics and the press once more took an interest in his work, seeing it as an early precursor to surrealist imagery. Losing his home during the Blitz, he fell into relative obscurity following the Second World War, although he continued exhibiting till his death in 1956."

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