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elag (elag@cloudNINE.net) 2003/11/27 20:51

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Paul Kinsler wrote:
>
> Never heard of him, but he's got a 4-column
> obituary in the Indepenent...
>
>   Gordon Onslow Ford was the last surviving member of the Paris
>   surrealist group of the 1930s. Although less well-documented
>   than the work of his surrealist contemporaries, Onslow Ford's
>   painting, writing and teaching has had an understated impact
>   on art from his days as a surrealist to the present.
>
http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/story.jsp?story=465423



Thanks for that.  I don't recall reading of him before.  I found his
work very interesting.  They remind me of the Australian Aboriginal Dreamtime.

There's a web gallery of his work here:

http://www.onslowford.com/



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