Artist     Harold Cohen
Title      Arnolfini Painting
Date      1983-84
object   drawing
Media   mixed media
Size      80 x 268cm
Ref         969

A kind gift from the Arnolfini Collection Trust

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Arnolfini Painting
Born in London in 1928, Harold Cohen is an Abstract painter and designer. He attended the Slade School of Art between 1948-52 being awarded the Abbey Travelling Scholarship and visited Italy.

Harold Cohen had his first one-man exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, in 1951; this was followed in London at Gimpel Fils 1954. He became a Fellow in Fine Arts at Nottingham University 1956-9, and then went to the United States on a Harkness Commonwealth Fellowship and held an exhibition at the Allan Stone Gallery, New York, 1961. Cohen was a contributor to the Situation exhibitions in 1960 and 1961. He joined the teaching staff of the Slade School in 1962.

Cohen, a former director of the Center for Research in Computing and the Arts (CRCA) San Francisco, has been the creator and mentor of AARON, a painting robot, for more than 20 years. The result is the first robot in human history to paint original art. AARON mixes its own paints, creates striking artwork and even washes its own brushes.

Bibliography:
Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, London 1964.
see also : www.pbs.org/safarchive/3_ask/archive/qna/3284_cohen.html

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