Michael Tyzack
Michael Tyzack (3 August 1933 – 11 February 2007) was a British
Life and work
Michael Tyzack was born in
In 1956 he received a scholarship for a stay in Paris. After his return in 1957 he was active as a jazz musician in addition to his painting.
Tyzack was a member of 56 Group Wales from 1967 to 1972.[2]
Tyzack's painting Alesso 'B' won the first prize at the 1965 John Moores Painting Prizes in Liverpool.[3]
His work is characterized by its colour-happy Geometric abstraction. In 1968, he was a participant of the fourth 'documenta' in Kassel, with six geometric-abstract paintings.
Since 1955 his work has been exhibited in over 50 group exhibitions in the UK and in France, Switzerland, Netherlands, Italy, Brazil, Australia and Canada. Michael Tyzack was a teacher in the UK and North America and was a professor at the College of Charleston from 1976 to 2007. He died, aged 73, in Johns Island, South Carolina, United States.
Literature and sources
- Ausstellungskatalog zur IV. documenta: IV. documenta. Internationale Ausstellung; Katalog: Band 1: (Malerei und Plastik); Band 2: (Graphik/Objekte); Kassel 1968
- Kimpel, Harald / Stengel, Karin: documenta IV 1968 Internationale Ausstellung – Eine fotografische Rekonstruktion (Schriftenreihe des documenta-Archives); Bremen 2007, ISBN 978-3-86108-524-9
References
- ^ "Michael Tyzack at Aberystwyth University webpage". aber.ac.uk. Retrieved 24 March 2014.
- ISBN 978-0-9563602-1-2.
- ^ "John Moores Painting Prize – Past exhibitions". National Museums Liverpool. Retrieved 11 November 2021.
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