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Stephen Farthing

January 01, 1970

Stephen Farthing RA (born 16 September 1950) is an English painter and writer of art history.

Education edit

Stephen Farthing grew up in London and earned a bachelor's degree from Saint Martin's School of Art in 1973 and a master's degree in painting from the Royal College of Art, London in 1976.[1] In the final year of his master's program, Farthing won a scholarship to study at the British School at Rome for one year.[2]

Life and career edit

Since his return from Italy in 1977, Farthing has had one-man shows in the UK, Brazil, Uruguay, Mexico, Australia, Japan, and the United States.[1] Farthing's work was featured in the 1989 São Paulo Biennale and that same year he served as the Artist in Residence at the Hayward Gallery in London. He also won prizes in the John Moores Liverpool Exhibition on eight separate occasions between 1976 and 1999.[1]

Farthing was elected as a member of the Royal Academy of Arts in 1998.[1] Farthing's work is in the National Portrait Gallery. He showed at Tate Britain in 2006 as part of a project called "Drawing from Turner," which he designed and curated.[3] Farthing painted large murals for the Cleveland Browns Football Club in Cleveland, Ohio (2004) and Aston Villa Football Club in Birmingham, UK (2008).[4][5]

Stephen Farthing's teaching career began at Canterbury College of Art (1977–79) where he was a lecturer of painting. He went on to teach at the Royal College of Art (1980–85) before becoming Head of Painting and later Head of Fine Art at West Surrey College of Art and Design (1985–89).[1] Farthing spent the next ten years at Oxford University serving as the Ruskin Master at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art. He was also made a Professorial Fellow of Oxford's St Edmund Hall (1990–2000). Upon leaving the University of Oxford in 2000, Farthing was made a professor emeritus of St Edmund Hall.[6]

Farthing moved to New York in 2000 to become the Executive Director of the New York Academy of Art and led the Academy until he became the Rootstein Hopkins Research Chair of Drawing at the University of the Arts London in 2004, a position he held until 2017.[7]

Farthing has published extensively. He is best known for his authorship of 1001 Paintings You Must See Before You Die and 501 Great Artists. He authored the Intelligent Person's Guide to Modern Art, published in 2000, in addition to numerous academic essays and journal articles.[7][8]

Stephen Farthing continues to live and work in both the United Kingdom and the United States.[citation needed]

Work edit

 
Louis XV Rigaud (1975), Walker Art Gallery

Farthing described his work in a 2005 interview, saying "I have dined with the devil in terms of becoming a modern artist. I have taken hold of history, tried to understand it—and then used and abused it."[9]

Farthing's work reflects his education, personal experience and perspective on historical events that have captured his imagination. After spending a period of study at the Cité internationale des arts in Paris while a student at the Royal College of Art, Stephen Farthing inadvertently fell upon what one could later describe as a postmodernist relationship with history.[10] In Paris, he painted an interpretation of Hyacinthe Rigaud's portrait of Louis XV that as a student won him a prize at the John Moores Exhibition in Liverpool, today this painting stands as an early example of British post modernist painting.[5][11]

In the late 1980s and early 1990s whilst showing with Edward Totah in London, Farthing showed works that positioned Latin American vernacular culture within a modernist idiom and classicism within the vernacular.

During the 1990s, he reinvented history painting as a viable contemporary narrative taking on subject matters as diverse as the Battle of Trafalgar, swagger portraiture, and the topographical mapping of cities.[12][13] His most recent work makes explicit a theme that has consistently sat between Farthing and his audience, the "narrative" and "text".

 
Hands of Fate, (Battle of Trafalgar)
 
The Backstory: Boucher (2009)

Farthing commented that his work is, "not this thing about 'Oh, let's let the audience make up their mind what it is'…" but about "degrading it on purpose so it becomes not more ambiguous, but less what it was in the first place."[14]

Toward the end of 2009, Farthing had his first one-person show at the Purdy Hicks Gallery in London where, for the first time, he showed the "back-story" paintings.[15] The "back-story" paintings are a series of images painted with a text in reverse sitting on the picture plane between the audience and the image. The text tells us what is going on not in the picture but behind it, so compromising and at the same time informing the image with text. His technically very skilled paintings all seem to be grounded on one guiding principle - that what we see will always be always conditioned by what we know.

In November 2010, Farthing became the second living Royal Academician to be featured in the "laboratory" series of one man shows at the Royal Academy of Arts London. "The Back Story," featured an epic 30-foot painting of the Atlantic Ocean.[16][17]

Farthing's work as a painter sits midway between the conservative and the cutting edge between a classical and radical painting.

 
The Atlantic (2006), photographed at the Royal Academy of Arts, December 2010.

Bibliography edit

  • Ruskin and Art Education 1836–1993, Review of the Pre-Raphaelite Society, no.3, Autumn.1993
  • The Knowledge, The Artist's Eye, Essay Arts Review, paintings of SE1.1995
  • Cornelia Hesse Honegger, exhibition catalogue, interview with Dr Stephen Simpson, edited by Paul Bonaventura, published by Locus +, Newcastle.1997
  • In a Valley of the Restless Mind, Hilary Davis, Enitharmon,1997 ISBN 1-870612-97-3.
  • International Minds, front cover by Stephen Farthing
  • Instructions For Use, English translation of Mode d'emploi, Editions, Jannink, Paris, ISBN 2-902462-48-4.
  • Mode d'emploi, Stephen Farthing, Edition Jannink, funded by the British Council, Paris, 1999 ISBN 2-902462-44-1,
  • New Contemporaries, catalogue essay with Paul Bonaventura, 1999
  • The Higher Education Journal, Vol. 10, March Fine Art, The Cinderella Subject, Stephen Farthing, 1999
  • Intelligent Persons Guide to Modern Art, Stephen Farthing, Duckworth, London,2000 ISBN 0-7156-2944-1.
  • British School at Rome Centenary, edited by Andrew-Wallace Hadrill, chapter "Post War Art 1945-75", 2002 ISBN 0-904152-35-9.
  • Will Barnet: in his own words, edited by Sandra April and Stephen Farthing, NYAA, 2004 New York.
  • A Curriculum for Artists, edited by Stephen Farthing and Paul Bonaventura, University of Oxford & NYAA, 2004 ISBN 0-9538525-3-9.
  • Dirtying the Paper Delicately, University of the Arts, London. 2005
  • Jerwood Drawing Prize, Drawing: The Bigger Picture, catalogue essay, 2005, ISBN 0-948327-20-0.
  • Short Stories about Painting, edited by Jeffrey Dennis, essay, The Unpaintable, Art Space Gallery 2005, ISBN 0-9549623-2-X.
  • 1001 Paintings You Must See Before You Die, 2006, edited by Stephen Farthing. Cassell. 2006 ISBN 978-1-84403-563-2, ISBN 1-84403-563-8.
  • Writing on Drawing, 2008, edited by Steven Garner, with essay by Stephen Farthing and introduction by Anita Taylor. Published by Intellect, ISBN 978-1-84150-200-7.
  • 501 Great Artists, A Comprehensive Guide to the Giants of the Art World, 2008, USA Publisher: Barron's Educational Series. New Zealand Publisher: Penguin. ISBN 0-7641-6133-4 . ISBN 978-0-7641-6133-9.

References edit

  1. ^ a b c d e "Stephen Farthing RA - Painters - Royal Academicians - Royal Academy of Arts". Royalacademy.org.uk. 16 September 1950. Retrieved 18 November 2013.
  2. ^ "Purdy Hicks Artists Index". Purdyhicks.com. Retrieved 18 November 2013.
  3. ^ "Drawing from Turner". Tate. Retrieved 18 November 2013.
  4. ^ "Aston Villa Football Club | the official club website".
  5. ^ a b . Stephen Farthing. Archived from the original on 2 March 2012. Retrieved 18 November 2013.
  6. ^ "Stephen Farthing". Seh.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 10 April 2014.
  7. ^ a b . Archived from the original on 13 April 2014. Retrieved 10 April 2014.
  8. ^ . Stephen Farthing. Archived from the original on 8 December 2013. Retrieved 18 November 2013.
  9. ^ "Draw the line at copying? Not him | General". Times Higher Education. 10 June 2005. Retrieved 18 November 2013.
  10. ^ Randy Lerner, "The Fourth Wall," in Stephen Farthing: The Fourth Wall, London: Purdy Hicks, 2009, p. 5.
  11. ^ . Liverpoolmuseums.org.uk. Archived from the original on 28 February 2014. Retrieved 18 November 2013.
  12. ^ . Stephen Farthing. Archived from the original on 2 March 2012. Retrieved 18 November 2013.
  13. ^ "Cleveland Browns owner getting his kicks from English football | Lubbock Online | Lubbock Avalanche-Journal". Lubbock Online. 24 December 2006. Retrieved 18 November 2013.
  14. ^ (PDF). Lynnparr.co.uk. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 March 2012. Retrieved 18 November 2013.
  15. ^ Randy Lerner, "The Fourth Wall," in Stephen Farthing: The Fourth Wall, London: Purdy Hicks, 2009, p. 7.
  16. ^ Royal Academy of Arts. . Press Release. Archived from the original on 1 March 2014. Retrieved 4 March 2011.
  17. ^ Chelsea Space. "Stephen Farthing's Ultra Marine Painting". Atlantic Ocean. Retrieved 4 March 2011.

External links edit

 
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  • Profile on Royal Academy of Arts Collections

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degree in painting from the Royal College of Art London in 1976 1 In the final year of his master s program Farthing won a scholarship to study at the British School at Rome for one year 2 Life and career editSince his return from Italy in 1977 Farthing has had one man shows in the UK Brazil Uruguay Mexico Australia Japan and the United States 1 Farthing s work was featured in the 1989 Sao Paulo Biennale and that same year he served as the Artist in Residence at the Hayward Gallery in London He also won prizes in the John Moores Liverpool Exhibition on eight separate occasions between 1976 and 1999 1 Farthing was elected as a member of the Royal Academy of Arts in 1998 1 Farthing s work is in the National Portrait Gallery He showed at Tate Britain in 2006 as part of a project called Drawing from Turner which he designed and curated 3 Farthing painted large murals for the Cleveland Browns Football Club in Cleveland Ohio 2004 and Aston Villa Football Club in Birmingham UK 2008 4 5 Stephen Farthing s teaching career began at Canterbury College of Art 1977 79 where he was a lecturer of painting He went on to teach at the Royal College of Art 1980 85 before becoming Head of Painting and later Head of Fine Art at West Surrey College of Art and Design 1985 89 1 Farthing spent the next ten years at Oxford University serving as the Ruskin Master at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art He was also made a Professorial Fellow of Oxford s St Edmund Hall 1990 2000 Upon leaving the University of Oxford in 2000 Farthing was made a professor emeritus of St Edmund Hall 6 Farthing moved to New York in 2000 to become the Executive Director of the New York Academy of Art and led the Academy until he became the Rootstein Hopkins Research Chair of Drawing at the University of the Arts London in 2004 a position he held until 2017 7 Farthing has published extensively He is best known for his authorship of 1001 Paintings You Must See Before You Die and 501 Great Artists He authored the Intelligent Person s Guide to Modern Art published in 2000 in addition to numerous academic essays and journal articles 7 8 Stephen Farthing continues to live and work in both the United Kingdom and the United States citation needed Work edit nbsp Louis XV Rigaud 1975 Walker Art GalleryFarthing described his work in a 2005 interview saying I have dined with the devil in terms of becoming a modern artist I have taken hold of history tried to understand it and then used and abused it 9 Farthing s work reflects his education personal experience and perspective on historical events that have captured his imagination After spending a period of study at the Cite internationale des arts in Paris while a student at the Royal College of Art Stephen Farthing inadvertently fell upon what one could later describe as a postmodernist relationship with history 10 In Paris he painted an interpretation of Hyacinthe Rigaud s portrait of Louis XV that as a student won him a prize at the John Moores Exhibition in Liverpool today this painting stands as an early example of British post modernist painting 5 11 In the late 1980s and early 1990s whilst showing with Edward Totah in London Farthing showed works that positioned Latin American vernacular culture within a modernist idiom and classicism within the vernacular During the 1990s he reinvented history painting as a viable contemporary narrative taking on subject matters as diverse as the Battle of Trafalgar swagger portraiture and the topographical mapping of cities 12 13 His most recent work makes explicit a theme that has consistently sat between Farthing and his audience the narrative and text nbsp Hands of Fate Battle of Trafalgar nbsp The Backstory Boucher 2009 Farthing commented that his work is not this thing about Oh let s let the audience make up their mind what it is but about degrading it on purpose so it becomes not more ambiguous but less what it was in the first place 14 Toward the end of 2009 Farthing had his first one person show at the Purdy Hicks Gallery in London where for the first time he showed the back story paintings 15 The back story paintings are a series of images painted with a text in reverse sitting on the picture plane between the audience and the image The text tells us what is going on not in the picture but behind it so compromising and at the same time informing the image with text His technically very skilled paintings all seem to be grounded on one guiding principle that what we see will always be always conditioned by what we know In November 2010 Farthing became the second living Royal Academician to be featured in the laboratory series of one man shows at the Royal Academy of Arts London The Back Story featured an epic 30 foot painting of the Atlantic Ocean 16 17 Farthing s work as a painter sits midway between the conservative and the cutting edge between a classical and radical painting nbsp The Atlantic 2006 photographed at the Royal Academy of Arts December 2010 Bibliography editRuskin and Art Education 1836 1993 Review of the Pre Raphaelite Society no 3 Autumn 1993 The Knowledge The Artist s Eye Essay Arts Review paintings of SE1 1995 Cornelia Hesse Honegger exhibition catalogue interview with Dr Stephen Simpson edited by Paul Bonaventura published by Locus Newcastle 1997 In a Valley of the Restless Mind Hilary Davis Enitharmon 1997 ISBN 1 870612 97 3 International Minds front cover by Stephen Farthing Instructions For Use English translation of Mode d emploi Editions Jannink Paris ISBN 2 902462 48 4 Mode d emploi Stephen Farthing Edition Jannink funded by the British Council Paris 1999 ISBN 2 902462 44 1 New Contemporaries catalogue essay with Paul Bonaventura 1999 The Higher Education Journal Vol 10 March Fine Art The Cinderella Subject Stephen Farthing 1999 Intelligent Persons Guide to Modern Art Stephen Farthing Duckworth London 2000 ISBN 0 7156 2944 1 British School at Rome Centenary edited by Andrew Wallace Hadrill chapter Post War Art 1945 75 2002 ISBN 0 904152 35 9 Will Barnet in his own words edited by Sandra April and Stephen Farthing NYAA 2004 New York A Curriculum for Artists edited by Stephen Farthing and Paul Bonaventura University of Oxford amp NYAA 2004 ISBN 0 9538525 3 9 Dirtying the Paper Delicately University of the Arts London 2005 Jerwood Drawing Prize Drawing The Bigger Picture catalogue essay 2005 ISBN 0 948327 20 0 Short Stories about Painting edited by Jeffrey Dennis essay The Unpaintable Art Space Gallery 2005 ISBN 0 9549623 2 X 1001 Paintings You Must See Before You Die 2006 edited by Stephen Farthing Cassell 2006 ISBN 978 1 84403 563 2 ISBN 1 84403 563 8 Writing on Drawing 2008 edited by Steven Garner with essay by Stephen Farthing and introduction by Anita Taylor Published by Intellect ISBN 978 1 84150 200 7 501 Great Artists A Comprehensive Guide to the Giants of the Art World 2008 USA Publisher Barron s Educational Series New Zealand Publisher Penguin ISBN 0 7641 6133 4 ISBN 978 0 7641 6133 9 References edit a b c d e Stephen Farthing RA Painters Royal Academicians Royal Academy of Arts Royalacademy org uk 16 September 1950 Retrieved 18 November 2013 Purdy Hicks Artists Index Purdyhicks com Retrieved 18 November 2013 Drawing from Turner Tate Retrieved 18 November 2013 Aston Villa Football Club the official club website a b Stephen Farthing Stephen Farthing Archived from the original on 2 March 2012 Retrieved 18 November 2013 Stephen Farthing Seh ox ac uk Retrieved 10 April 2014 a b University of the Arts London Professor Stephen Farthing Archived from the original on 13 April 2014 Retrieved 10 April 2014 Stephen Farthing Stephen Farthing Archived from the original on 8 December 2013 Retrieved 18 November 2013 Draw the line at copying Not him General Times Higher Education 10 June 2005 Retrieved 18 November 2013 Randy Lerner The Fourth Wall in Stephen Farthing The Fourth Wall London Purdy Hicks 2009 p 5 Louis XV Rigaud Stephen Farthing Walker Art Gallery Liverpool museums Liverpoolmuseums org uk Archived from the original on 28 February 2014 Retrieved 18 November 2013 Stephen Farthing Stephen Farthing Archived from the original on 2 March 2012 Retrieved 18 November 2013 Cleveland Browns owner getting his kicks from English football Lubbock Online Lubbock Avalanche Journal Lubbock Online 24 December 2006 Retrieved 18 November 2013 Stephen Farthing Marginally Out of Control PDF Lynnparr co uk Archived from the original PDF on 2 March 2012 Retrieved 18 November 2013 Randy Lerner The Fourth Wall in Stephen Farthing The Fourth Wall London Purdy Hicks 2009 p 7 Royal Academy of Arts Artists Laboratory 02 Stephen Farthing RA The Back Story Press Release Archived from the original on 1 March 2014 Retrieved 4 March 2011 Chelsea Space Stephen Farthing s Ultra Marine Painting Atlantic Ocean Retrieved 4 March 2011 External links edit nbsp Wikimedia Commons has media related to Stephen Farthing Official website Purdy Hicks 22 artworks by or after Stephen Farthing at the Art UK site Royalacademy org uk arts ac uk Profile on Royal Academy of Arts Collections Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Stephen Farthing amp oldid 1181164675, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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