Jublilant Crowd

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Art Collection

Like an abstract composition magically brought to life, this print by Bernard Cheese is dominated by a mass of colourful discs that ascend balloon-like into the sky. The ebullient colour filling the space animates the black clothed, grey haired figures lined up along the bottom of the composition. As the title of Cheese’s work suggests, it is the mass of colour bursting above that brings joy and a sense of freedom to the otherwise anonymous people below.

Bernard Cheese was born in Sydenham in 1925 and trained at the Beckenham School of Art. After four years in the army, he attended the Royal College of Art from 1947-50. Here he studied under Edward Bawden, John Nash and Edwin La Dell. La Dell in particular influenced Bernard Cheese and his use of lithography. From 1950-68, he taught printmaking at St Martin’s School of Art, was Senior Lecturer at Goldsmith’s College, London 1970-78 and taught part-time at Central School of Art and Crafts 1980-89. In 1998, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers.

Places

Subjects

crowd, celebration, balloon

Materials & Techniques

screenprint

Artist

Bernard Cheese (1925 - 2013)

Title

Jublilant Crowd

Edition

7/30

Date

Medium

Screenprint

Dimensions

height: 59.40 cm, width: 78.40 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from Editions Alecto, March 1971

Inscription

tl: Jubilant Crowd 7/30 tr: Bernard Cheese

GAC number

9233