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Introduction
Michael James Kidner (11 September 1917 – 2009) was a pioneer of Op art in the mid-1960s from Kettering, Northamptonshire, England. Michael Kidner was one of its earliest and most consistent exponents and it was in these overlapping fields of optical effect and systemic structure that he was to find the creative substance that was to sustain his whole career. A Constructivist by inclination his interest in mathematics, chaos and wave theories informed an art that is both rational and intuitive. Without losing his rigorous, intellectual approach, Kidner manages to make his work resonate emotionally.Throughout his life he retained an interest in unpredictable world events that provoked unplanned elements within his work but he somehow managed to intimate an underlying order through his use of form and colour. Unless you read a painting as a feeling, then you don't get anything at all
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Nationalities
British, English
Gender
Male
Roles
Artist, Painter, Sculptor
Name
Michael Kidner
Ulan
500028839
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2 works online

Exhibition

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