Alexis Preller

Alexis Preller (6 September 1911 – 13 December 1975) was a South African painter. He trained at the Westminster School of Art from which he graduated in 1934 and later at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris (1937). Quotes The images that I want to create ... will only live if I find them, and their reality and presence, in turn, creates my identity and reality. They are the evidence of my personality and my imagination. My painting and I are involved together in life and it is in the studio where we both come alive ... The studio is the centre of my activity. It is not only the place where I work, but where I live. It contains my credo and my faith. I do not know of any day when I have entered my studio without having felt a sense of security, contentment, and urgency. This is a place of isolation where I am contained in my activity. It is the only place I claim for myself and which claims me. It belongs to me alone . somewhere along the way to expression, the idea becomes transmuted ... [I]mportant things happen to it [and it emerges eventually] quite different from its original state. ... There will be a growth and a flowering, but neither the idea nor its mentor is capable of knowing what shape or form that will be. Horror and beauty: Processing trauma through creative action in the work of Alexis Preller https://scielo.org.za/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1021-14972024000100005 External link Category: Artists Category: People from South Africa Category: Painters