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

Creators United Kingdom

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1819 - 1904
Lionel Percy Smythe (1839 - 1918)
Lionel Percy Smythe
1839 - 1918
Rachel Goodyear (1978)
Rachel Goodyear
1978
John Kingerlee (1936)
John Kingerlee
1936
Adrian Scott Stokes (1854 - 1935)
Adrian Scott Stokes
1854 - 1935
Charles Collins (1818 - 1899)
Charles Collins
1818 - 1899
Samuel Atkins (1760 - 1808)
Samuel Atkins
1760 - 1808
George Cruikshank (1792 - 1878)
George Cruikshank
1792 - 1878
Ian Hamilton Finlay (1925 - 2006)
Ian Hamilton Finlay
1925 - 2006
John Chartier ()
John Chartier
George Hayter (1792 - 1871)
George Hayter
1792 - 1871
George Hammond Steel (1900 - 1960)
George Hammond Steel
1900 - 1960
Edward Arthur Walton (1860 - 1922)
Edward Arthur Walton
1860 - 1922
Charles Stuart Harris (1830 - 1918)
Charles Stuart Harris
1830 - 1918
Gillian Ayres (1930 - 2018)
Gillian Ayres
1930 - 2018
Percy Wyndham Lewis (1882 - 1957)
Percy Wyndham Lewis
1882 - 1957

Creators Abstract art

Pierre Tal-Coat (1905 - 1985)
Pierre Tal-Coat
1905 - 1985
Alexander Gerbig (1878 - 1948)
Alexander Gerbig
1878 - 1948
Josef Hermann Hendel (1897 - 1993)
Josef Hermann Hendel
1897 - 1993
Gedi Sibony (1973)
Gedi Sibony
1973
Jean-François Dubreuil (1946)
Jean-François Dubreuil
1946
Frank Behrens (1883 - 1945)
Frank Behrens
1883 - 1945
Elizabeth Murray (1940 - 2007)
Elizabeth Murray
1940 - 2007
Henry Speller (1900 - 1997)
Henry Speller
1900 - 1997
Frances Scholz (1962)
Frances Scholz
1962
Alfonso Ossorio (1916 - 1990)
Alfonso Ossorio
1916 - 1990
Georg Karl Pfahler (1926 - 2002)
Georg Karl Pfahler
1926 - 2002
Achille Perilli (1927 - 2021)
Achille Perilli
1927 - 2021
Peter Foeller (1945)
Peter Foeller
1945
Heinz Plank (1945)
Heinz Plank
1945
Imre Bak (1939 - 2022)
Imre Bak
1939 - 2022
Moira Dryer (1957 - 1993)
Moira Dryer
1957 - 1993