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Born 1942. Known for: Landscape, figure, portrait painting.
John Meyer (b. 1942) . He is one of South Africa's leading contemporary realists. Meyer creates landscapes, portraiture and narrative art. He became a professional painter in 1972. Since then he has... Read full biography
John Meyer (b. 1942) . He is one of South Africa's leading contemporary realists. Meyer creates landscapes, portraiture and narrative art. He became a professional painter in 1972. Since then he has travelled extensively, painting landscapes from Nevada to Norway. He has exhibited in the United... Read full biography
John Meyer (b. 1942) . He is one of South Africa's leading contemporary realists. Meyer creates landscapes, portraiture and narrative art. He became a professional painter in 1972. Since then he has travelled extensively, painting landscapes from Nevada to Norway. He has exhibited in the United States, Europe and South Africa, and portayed notable figures from Nobel Peace Prize winners Nelson Mandela and FW de Klerk, to concert pianist Vladimir Horowitz. Since the early 1990's Meyer has... Read full biography
John Meyer (b. 1942) . He is one of South Africa's leading contemporary realists. Meyer creates landscapes, portraiture and narrative art. He became a professional painter in 1972. Since then he has travelled extensively, painting landscapes from Nevada to Norway. He has exhibited in the United States, Europe and South Africa, and portayed notable figures from Nobel Peace Prize winners Nelson Mandela and FW de Klerk, to concert pianist Vladimir Horowitz. Since the early 1990's Meyer has concentrated almost exclusively on what he calls the narrative genre - enigmatic figures caught in emotional ambiguities - representing a new direction to his art. Selected Exhibitions:. 1995 Contemporary Arts Centre, New Orleans and New York Academy of... Read full biography
John Meyer (b. 1942) . He is one of South Africa's leading contemporary realists. Meyer creates landscapes, portraiture and narrative art. He became a professional painter in 1972. Since then he has travelled extensively, painting landscapes from Nevada to Norway. He has exhibited in the United States, Europe and South Africa, and portayed notable figures from Nobel Peace Prize winners Nelson Mandela and FW de Klerk, to concert pianist Vladimir Horowitz. Since the early 1990's Meyer has concentrated almost exclusively on what he calls the narrative genre - enigmatic figures caught in emotional ambiguities - representing a new direction to his art. Selected Exhibitions:. 1995 Contemporary Arts Centre, New Orleans and New York Academy of Art, New York. 2007 London Art Fair, Albemarle Gallery, London. 2009 Museum Schlos... Read full biography
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John Meyer (b. 1942)
He is one of South Africa's leading contemporary realists. Meyer creates landscapes, portraiture and narrative art. He became a professional painter in 1972. Since then he has travelled extensively, painting landscapes from Nevada to Norway.
He has exhibited in the United States, Europe and South Africa, and portayed notable figures from Nobel Peace Prize winners Nelson Mandela and FW de Klerk, to concert pianist Vladimir Horowitz.
Since the early 1990's Meyer has concentrated almost exclusively on what he calls the narrative genre - enigmatic figures caught in emotional ambiguities - representing a new direction to his art.
Selected Exhibitions:
1995 Contemporary Arts Centre, New Orleans and New York Academy of Art, New York
2007 London Art Fair, Albemarle Gallery, London
2009 Museum Schloss Gottorf, Germany
Selected Bibliography:
Books:
Art & Artists of South Africa, Esme Berman (AA Balkema)
Painting in South Africa, Esme Berman (Southern Books)
Artspeak, Robert Atkins (Abbeyville Press, New York)
John Meyer, Brett Hilton-Barber (Prime Origins)
John Meyer Sequential Narratives, Brett Hilton-Barber (Prime Origins)
Catalogues:
John Meyer in Retrospect (Everard Read Gallery 1983)
Drawn From Nature (Stremmel Gallery 1990)
Eiteljorg Invitational 2 (Exhibition 1991)
John Meyer Recent Paintings (Everard Read Gallery 1991)
John Meyer (Everard Read Gallery 1996)
John Meyer Sequential Narratives (Everard Read Cape Town 2005)
Distant Lives, John Meyer (Albemarle Gallery 2007)
Truths Revealed, John Meyer (Everard Read 2007)
Source:
johnmeyerpaintings.com/Biography from Strauss & Co Cape Town
“One could say I’m obsessed with the magical properties of paint, with the process that allows for and unlocks the magic. It all depends on where you direct your energy … The complex layering of painterly tones, placed in apparently random order, creates the stage for a personal search. Here I indulge my need to escape from an increasingly intrusive world.” –John Meyer John Meyer studied at the Johannesburg Technical College’s School of Art before working in advertising and as a freelance illustrator. He has maintained a considered commitment to representational painting and presents us with strikingly real illusions, all distinctly familiar, yet ultimately invented. They are imagined archetypes rather than specific events. His most recent ‘Sequential Narratives’ genre explores the complex currents of human relationships in series of separate but related views of the same reaction. Other series include Lost in the Dust, fifteen works set during the Anglo Boer War; Mandela, a Life’s Journey, sixteen works on the life of Nelson Mandela; Elizabeth, A Sovereign’s Journey, eleven paintings on the life of Queen Elizabeth II; Migrations, exploring the journeys of the various peoples who immigrated to South Africa; and an as yet untitled series on the looming global climate crisis. Meyer has exhibited extensively both locally and internationally and his work is included in the following collections: Anglo American, Johannesburg; ARA Services, Philadelphia; Cargill Inc, Minneapolis; ExxonMobil, Dallas; Lloyds, London; Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund, Cape Town; and Standard Bank, Johannesburg. Adapted from the artist's website https://www.johnmeyerpaintings.com, accessed 7 SeptemberBiography from Auctionata
Having grown up in South Africa, John Meyer worked as a freelance illustrator for various magazines, such as Readers Digest and The Times in London. From 1969, he worked as the first full-time illustrator in South Africa and also started to paint. Since 1972, he worked as a professional painter. Meyer then put his focus on landscapes, portraits and narrative scenes. As a portraitist, he painted portraits of the rich and powerful people, including Nelson Mandela and Frederik Willem de Klerk. Meyer lives and works in Cape Town. (cko)