Ian Scott (artist)
Ian Christopher Scott was a New Zealand painter. From the late 1960s, his work was significant for pursuing an international scope and vision within a local context previously dominated by regionalist and national concerns. Over the course of his career he consistently sought to push his work towards new possibilities for painting, in the process moving between abstraction and representation, and using controversial themes and approaches, while maintaining a highly personal and recognisable style. His work spans a wide range of concerns including the New Zealand landscape , popular imagery , appropriation and art historical references. Scotts paintings are distinctive for their intensity of colour and light. His approach to painting is aligned with the modernist tradition, responding to the formal standards set by the American painters Morris Louis, Kenneth Noland and Jules Olitski.
Ian Scott was born in Bradford, England onApril 1945, the oldest of five sons. His family initially lived in the village of Baildon on the Yorkshire Moors near Bradford.In 1952, when Scott was seven, his parents, Barbara and John Scott, moved the family to Auckland, New Zealand, seeking a life that offered more opportunity than the severe world of postWorld War Two England.
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