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	Alex Colville - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Canadian artist Alex Colville specializes in realist paintings of subjects and landscapes that may seem familiar and ordinary at first glance.
		Colville (Alaska), river in Alaska, largest northward-flowing river in the state.
		The Colville rises on the slopes of the Brooks Range of north...
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	Amazon.ca: Alex Colville: Return: Books: Tom Smart (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Alex Colville was a Canadian war artist during wwii and was one of three painters admitted to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp as it was being liberated.
		Alex Colville: Return is a not only a stunning collection of paintings and prints by one of Canada's premier artists, but a testimony to the resilience of the human spirit.
		Alex Colville: Return offers fresh insight into the art of Alex Colville, focussing on paintings from the last ten years reflected in the context of his life's work and its broad themes of survival, longing and mortality.
	www.amazon.ca /Alex-Colville-Return-Tom-Smart/dp/1550549820 (353 words)

	Alex Colville - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Colville left teaching to devote himself to painting and print-making full-time from a studio on the Mount Allison campus in a historic home on Bridge Street (today a small student residence named Colville House).
		Colville stated on numerous occasions that he was an artist of the real and despised other artists who did not carry their work beyond the geometry or other abstract ideas in the heart of their work, hence the controversy regarding the style of his paintings.
		Colville calls himself a realist, while many critics and art lovers have chosen to see him as a magic realist.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alex_Colville (622 words)

	Mira Godard Gallery Artists: Alex Colville
		Alex Colville was born in 1920 in Toronto, Ontario.
		Colville has exhibited extensively across Canada and internationally including the Tate Gallery in London, England; Beijing Exhibition Centre; Fung Ping Shan Museum in Hong Kong; Teien Museum in Tokyo; Canadian Pavillion at the 1966 Biennale in Venice, Italy; National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa; Kestner Gesellschaft in Hannover and Menschenbilder, Mathildenhohe in Darmstadt, Germany.
		Alex Colville's work is found in many collections including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Musée National D'Art Moderne in Paris, the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, the Centre National d'Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou in Paris, the Wallraf-Richartz Museum in Cologne and Kestner Gesellschaft in Hannover, Germany.
	www.godardgallery.com /colville.htm (147 words)

	Canadian Art
		Alex Colville: Return is the handsome catalogue to a substantial touring exhibition that appeared last summer at the University of Toronto Art Centre.
		Colville's public would be surprised by change, but nothing has disturbed his calm, if troubling, surfaces.
		Colville never abandoned concerns from the war years, nor is he any more or less worthy of critical attention.
	www.canadianart.ca /articles/Articles_Details.cfm?Ref_num=330 (737 words)

	Alex Colville - Artists' Garden Inc.
		Alex Colville was born in Toronto on the 24 of August 1920, but considers himself a Maritimer having moved with his family to Nova Scotia in 1929.
		Colville's work has been exhibited in many parts of the world -in North America, Europe and the Far East - and has been eagerly sought for museum, corporate and private collections.
		He has received many honours; he was chosen to design a set of coins for Canada's Centenial in 1967 and that year was made an Officer of the Order of Canada and raised to Companion, the highest level of the Order, in 1982.
	www.artistsgarden.com /alex (203 words)

	Alex Colville - About the Artist
		Alex Colville was born in Toronto in 1920 and grew up in Amherst, Nova Scotia, where his family moved in 1929.
		He graduated in 1942 with a bachelor of fine arts, one of the first degrees of this type to be granted in Canada.
		Like the Polish-born, English novelist Joseph Conrad - a favourite of Colville's, who is an avid reader - the artist quickly came to understand that the veneer of civilization is thin indeed.
	national.gallery.ca /exhibitions/past/alex_colville/english/aboutartist (298 words)

	Canadian Conservation Institute (CCI)
		Colville was relieved to observe its condition and felt its appearance had not changed in a major way.
		Colville has generously allowed us to study his 1945 version of The Artist’s Handbook of Materials and Techniques by Ralph Mayer, which includes his notes on the mixtures he was using at the time, as well as his experiments with driers to obtain a suitable drying time and surface appearance.
		Colville was introduced to Henry Levinson, President of Permanent Pigments Inc., manufacturer of Liquitex paints, from whom he obtained paint samples.
	www.cci-icc.gc.ca /publications/newsletters/news34/day_e.aspx (1422 words)

	Alex Colville: The Splendour of Order - Moviefone
		Alex Colville: The Splendour of Order (1983) - Recommendations Alex Colville: The Splendour of Order on IMDb: Movies, TV, Celebs, and more.
		NFB - Alex Colville: The Splendour of Order With archival footage, the film traces Colville's career which began as a war artist in 1944.
		Alex Colville: The Splendour of Order - Cast & Crew, movie showtimes, plot, synopsis, exclusive features, trailers, clips, theater listings, reviews, message boards, dvd, videos, rentals and more on Moviefone.
	movies.aol.com /movie/alex-colville-the-splendour-of-order/1250546/main (154 words)

	Carol Hoorn Fraser - Reputation
		Colville, to my surprise and pleasure, came to her memorial service, or so I was told—one of the few artists to do so.
		Though she liked and/or respected the work of individual Canadian artists, among them the Bobaks, Colville, Prent, Town, Blackwood, Metson, Milne, I think she felt that to be labelled A Canadian Artist and to be promoted to the status of a sort of national resource was to be condemned to the B team.
		It would be interesting to follow up the idea that if Colville’s works are quintessentially those of a man, C.’s work as a whole could only be that of a woman.
	www.jottings.ca /carol/reputation.html (870 words)

	Lot Details (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Smart writes that "Colville's close association of women and boats also figures prominently in his 1999 painting Woman with Skiff, an image of a female figure pulling a boat up on to the bank of the tidal plain.
		Colville wanted to capture the idea of people walking on a dyke and the idea that women can, and do, go out to be at peace with nature, to commune with it.
		This, Colville says, represents women in general, and in particular his daughter, Ann, as a kind of heroine figure.
	www.heffel.com /New/auction/details.aspx?ID=9586 (390 words)

	Canada's Walk of Fame: Alex Colville, artist, painter, printmaker
		While the National Gallery of Canada first began collecting Colville's work in the 1950s, it was not until exhibitions in Hanover, Germany and London, England in 1969 and 1970 that he began to experience commercial success.
		Colville's complex interpretations of simple human situations grow out of an abundance of sketches and studies.
		In 1965, Colville was commissioned to design the coins commemorating Canada's centennial year.
	www.canadaswalkoffame.com /inductees/02_alex_colville.xml.htm (471 words)

	NOW: Colville's craft, Jul 29 - Aug 4, 2004
		Alex Colville: Paintings, Drawings and Prints 1994-2002 at the University of Toronto Art Centre (15 King's College Circle), to August 7.
		Alex Colville, arguably canada's greatest living artist, has been patiently producing his own brand of enigmatic naturalism for the last 50 years.
		Colville's meticulous process produces a super-realism, a tranquil world where no detail has been overlooked or becomes smudged over by the hazards of casual viewing.
	www.nowtoronto.com /issues/2004-07-29/art_reviews2.php (345 words)

	Howard Bashaw : Corpus Hermeticum and Alex Colville
		Leaving behind the fixed point-of-view of Euclidean space and abandoning the realist subordination of modern art, Colville paints the present from the future perspective of the 21st century.
		A painter of and for the future, Colville's art is a visual record of a (human) history already experienced, but not yet understood.
		In Colville's world, mathematics becomes flesh, a measured space where the new math of saddle curves and parabolic field-events jumps out of the theory textbooks and colonizes the body with such intensity that flesh implodes, becoming an aesthetic after-image of architectural logic.
	pages.infinit.net /kore/bashawcolville.html (976 words)

	Alex Waterhouse-Hayward
		A THOUSAND WORDS - Alex Waterhouse-Hayward's blog on pictures, plants, politics and whatever else is on his mind.
		In 1995 I had the opportunity to photograph Canadian artist Alex Colville.
		Colvile answered, "That was my mother's milliner's table."
	www.alexwaterhousehayward.com /blog/2006/09/red-wind_02.html (233 words)

	WarMuseum.ca - Art and War - Canadian artist - Alex Colville
		Colville enlisted in the Canadian Infantry in 1942.
		In 1944 he was appointed an official war artist and painted in England, France, Holland and Germany.
		Today, Colville is celebrated for his magic-realist art.
	www.civilization.ca /cwm/artwar/artists/alex-colville_e.html (60 words)

	Amazon.com: Alex Colville: Return: Books: Tom Smart (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Alex Colville was a Canadian war artist during World War II - and one of three painters admitted to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp as it was being liberated.
		To express the unimaginable chaos, Colville sought order, which he found in an artistic style defined as "magic realism." In the shadow of September 11, and in the ongoing conflicts in the Middle East, Colville's art resonates with a renewed urgency and potency.
		I have enjoyed Colville's work for many years and thought reading this book would give me an understanding of his work.Well,after all's said and done I don't think my understanding is any greater.I guess the old adage of "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder" applies to me.
	www.amazon.com /Alex-Colville-Return-Tom-Smart/dp/1550549820 (1159 words)

	Alex Colville (1920 - ) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
		As a child, Canadian artist Alex Colville battled pneumonia and was encourages to draw during his recovery periods.
		Originally intending to go into law and politics, Colville was persuaded otherwise by his mentor Stanley Royale.
		As an inter-disciplinary digital artist and composer, Andrews current practice is focused upon constructing work that has no single medium, but transfers ideas across forms and languages, creating pieces that reside outside their physical forms...
	wwar.com /masters/c/colville-alex.html (785 words)

	Alex Colville
		Colville has been exploring these themes since his youth.
		His paintings often are described as frozen moments captured in time.
		Alex Colville's work is found in many collections including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Musee National D'Art Moderne in Paris, the National Art Gallery of Canada, the Centre National d'Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou in Paris, the Wallraf-Richartz Museum in Cologne and Kestner Gesellschaft in Hannover.
	www.paulkuhngallery.com /index.cfm?page=31 (217 words)

	The existential art of Alex Colville -- Todkill 163 (6): 748 -- Canadian Medical Association Journal
		The existential art of Alex Colville -- Todkill 163 (6): 748 -- Canadian Medical Association Journal
		Colville leaves no doubt of her potential victimization, her
		Alex Colville: Milestones was presented at the National Gallery
	www.cmaj.ca /cgi/content/full/163/6/748 (449 words)

	AGH Canadian Historical Collection Highlights
		Horse and Train is arguably Alex Colville's most recognized and celebrated work.
		Acquired by the Art Gallery of Hamilton in 1957, three years after it was painted, the work has - over the course of a half-century - ascended to icon status.
		This kernel provided Colville with the raw materials necessary to create a composition that transcends time and place and lingers long after our first encounter with the work.
	www.artgalleryofhamilton.com /aa_history_can.php (589 words)

	CBC.ca Arts - Vandals damage Colville paintings at Mendel
		Several weeks ago, two Alex Colville paintings were scratched, Mendel Art Gallery spokesperson Eve Kotyk said Thursday.
		Colville said he's surprised and annoyed that someone would vandalize his work, describing it as if "someone kicked a dog."
		Colville, whose works are valued between $100,000 and $250,000, has agreed to help repair them.
	www.cbc.ca /arts/story/2005/01/27/colville050127.html (1227 words)

	March 16 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Paul Duval, "High Realism in Canada: Alex Colville" in Elspeth Cameron ed., Canadian Culture: An Introductory Reader, Toronto: Canadian Scholars’ Press, 1997, 257-261.
		Alex Colville, sketch for Nude and Dummy, 1950 (pencil on paper)
		• Alex Colville describes his practice as an artist in terms of "the observer observed." How does that quote relate to his exploration of sight in his paintings?
	www.arts.ualberta.ca /~whitelaw/ARTH257/mar16.htm (146 words)

	Studio: The Life and Times of Alex Colville - Moviefone
		Studio: The Life and Times of Alex Colville: find the latest movie reviews, photos, trailers, clips, news, local showtimes, dvd info, synopsis,cast and crew...
		CBC: Life And Times Alex Colville celebrates at the National Gallery.
		Studio: The Life and Times of Alex Colville is an intimate portrait of Canada's greatest living artist.
	movies.aol.com /movie/studio-the-life-and-times-of-alex-colville/1250046/main (181 words)

	Alex Colville Online
		Book of poems inspired by the works of Alex Colville, along with Henri Rousseau and a few other artists
		We cannot be responsible for the content of external web sites.
		All images and text on this Alex Colville page are copyright 2007 by John Malyon/Artcyclopedia, unless otherwise noted.
	www.artcyclopedia.com /artists/colville_alex.html (220 words)

	Amazon.com: Alex Colville: The Observer Observed: Books: Mark A. Cheetham (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Alex Colville: Return by Tom Smart in Back Matter
		I got the impression that the author was afraid of being critical at all and relied on criticism written by others.
		I also learned what an important man Alex Colville is to Canada (both from his point-of-veiw, taken from interviews, and the authors glowing praise.) I found his personal insights and beliefs about art refreshing and a little intimidating.
	www.amazon.com /Alex-Colville-Observer-Mark-Cheetham/dp/1550222066 (982 words)

	Alex Colville: Return , Paintings, Drawings and Prints 1994 - 2002 - University of Toronto Art Centre - Absolutearts.com
		Alex Colville: Return, Paintings, Drawings and Prints 1994 - 2002 - University of Toronto Art Centre - Absolutearts.com
		Coupled with his eerie brand of naturalism, the misleadingly mundane and familiar subjects he repeatedly uses makes Colville's art at once accessible and enigmatic.
		This exhibition is intended to give viewers a glimpse into Colville's working methods, as he painstakingly plots the geometry and space of each of the compositions.
	www.absolutearts.com /artsnews/2004/06/16/32128.html (380 words)

	Alex Colville
		There have been several good books written on Colville and his work.
		Additional works by Colville can be found at CyberMuse.
		All images on this page are copyright Alex Colville.
	www.timlowly.com /a/colville.html (128 words)

	Alex Colville: tradition and the individual talent Antioch Review, The - Find Articles
		Alex Colville: tradition and the individual talent Antioch Review, The - Find Articles
		Alex Colville, one of the great modern realist painters, has the Flemish detail of Andrew Wyeth, the eerie foreboding of George Tooker, and the anguished confrontations of Lucian Freud.
		He has resolutely opposed the fashionable currents of abstract and expressionistic art and, as John Bayley noted in Elegy for Iris, "no other modern painter is so unconscious of prevailing fashion and so indifferent to what's new in the art world." In contrast to Jackson Pollock's action painting, Colville creates paintings of contemplation and reflection.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_go1991/is_200403/ai_n6289082 (160 words)

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