Ben Nicholson
British painter (1894-1982)
Ben Nicholson OM (April 10, 1894 – February 6, 1982) was an English abstract painter. His father was the painter Sir William Nicholson and his sister was Nancy Nicholson.
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Quotes
edit- The kind of painting which I find exciting is not necessarily representational or non-representational, but it is musical and architectural... Whether this visual relationship is slightly more or slightly less abstract is, for me, beside the point.
- "Notes on Abstract Art" in Herbert Read's Ben Nicholson: Paintings, Reliefs, Drawings (London, 1948)