Michael Tyzack - Artist Info

About Michael Tyzack

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    MICHAEL TYZACK (1933–2007)

    Michael Tyzack’s mature work consists of flat geometric canvases rendered in bold colors. Although he was born abroad and is most often listed as a British abstractionist, he spent the majority of his artistic career in Charleston, South Carolina.

    Tyzack was born in Sheffield, Yorkshire, and he studied at the Sheffield College of Art between 1950 and 1952. He went on to the Slade School of Fine Art, the art school of University College London, 1952–1956. He obtained a scholarship that funded a yearlong stay in Paris where, in addition to painting, he played a trumpet; an enduring passion for jazz resulted.

    In 1964 he became a lecturer at the Cardiff School of Art and Design (no...

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