Graham Sutherland

Graham Vivian Sutherland (24 August 1903 – 17 February 1980) was an English artist, who focused on the inherent strangeness of natural forms, and abstracting them, sometimes giving his work a surrealist appearance. He also painted many portraits. Winston Churchill hated his so much that he destroyed it. Quotes The kind of thing which I collect I can always carry back with me to the studio and study at leisure. I am fascinated by the whole problem of the tensions produced by the power of growth. Quoted in Noël Barber, Pierre Jeannerat de Beerski, "Conversations with Painters" (1964), p. 45 It is not a question so much of a 'tree like a figure' or a 'root like a figure' - it is a question of bringing out the anonymous personality of these things. The unknown is just as real as the known and must be made to look so. Almost everything, if one keeps one's eyes open, is potential material for painting. In painting, you have to destroy in order to gain. You have got to sacrifice something you are quite pleased with in order to get something better. External links Art In America essay on Sutherland "The Artist Winston Churchill Loved to Hate" Category:Painters from England Category:1903 births Category:1980 deaths Category:People from London