Markey Robinson (1918 - 1999)

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Markey Robinson

Markey Robinson, born James Markus Robinson, was an Irish self-taught artist and sculptor who worked in the Primitivist style.

From the age of 19, Robinson worked on merchant ships as a steward, traveling throughout Canada, the United States and South America. With the outbreak of World War II, he decided to take up painting, studied for a while at the Belfast College of Art, exhibited at the Ulster Academy of Art from 1941-1942 and even had success.

Robinson was known as a rather edgy and eccentric man who led a bohemian lifestyle. The subjects of his generally primitive and expressionist works included nautical themes, clowns, and landscapes of France and Ireland. By the mid-1950s, Robinson was on the lips of critics and the public, exhibited extensively, and was hailed as a genius by the Belfast newspapers. For the rest of his life his work was controversial: some considered him a gifted creator, others a populist who had outlived his early creative originality in the pursuit of profit.

Wikipedia

Date and place of birt:7 february 1918, Belfast, Ireland
Date and place of death:28 january 1999, Belfast, Ireland
Nationality:United Kingdom, Ireland
Period of activity: XX century
Specialization:Artist, Glass painter, Marine painter, Painter, Sculptor
Genre:Cityscape, Genre art, Landscape painting, Marine art, Rural landscape
Art style:Abstract art, Expressionism, Primitivism
Technique:Gouache, Oil
Medium:Glass, Stained glass

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