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Vincent Charles Arthur Giardelli, MBE, (11 April 1911 – 2 November 2009) was a Welsh artist of Italian paternal descent.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=artist bio )〕 Giardelli was raised in Surrey and attended Hertford College, Oxford, where he did a degree in Modern Languages.〔〔 He later trained at the Ruskin School of Art, Oxford from 1930-34. He lived most of his life in Wales and was represented by the Grosvenor Gallery in London for a large part of his career. He was a friend of artists Cedric Morris, David Jones, Josef Herman and Ceri Richards. He also had international artist friends including Zoran Mušič, Olivier Debré and Fairfield Porter.〔〔 He was pro-active in bringing art into south Wales's communities: In the 1940s he was part of the Dowlais Educational Settlement Movement, and was influential in setting up the Rhondda Group. 1948 Arthur Giardelli was one of the founders of the South Wales Group〔()〕 (which later became The Welsh Group) and the 56 Group Wales, which he later became president of towards the end of his life. He was also a Contemporary Art Society for Wales and Welsh Arts Council committee member.〔 He helped found the University Art Collection at Aberystwyth.〔〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Arthur Giardelli )〕 Giardelli’s work is held in many collections including the Tate, the National Museum of Wales, the National Library of Wales, Contemporary Art Society of Wales, Arts Council of Wales, Museum of Modern Art Wales, Brecknock Museum, Tenby Museum and Art Gallery together with museums and galleries in New York, Dublin, Nantes, Bratislava and Prague.〔〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title='The Sea is All About Us', Arthur Giardelli - Tate )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=BBC - Your Paintings - Arthur Giardelli )〕 ==Artwork== Giardelli first began to take his artwork seriously in the 1940s, when he arrived in Merthyr Tydfil, where he first met Cedric Morris and Heinz Koppel who both encouraged him. The town had an immediate impact on Giardelli; he once told poet Meic Stephens that "when the train finally pulled into Merthyr, I felt I'd come home".〔 Giardelli felt he had to constantly draw, paint and create and feared a world where his creative practice wasn't part of his life. He said "If I don't paint for a month, I may give it up for ever, so the constant challenge is that you must keep working. You must paint. You must draw. It's like speaking".〔()〕〔Peter Wakelin, "Arthur Giardelli & the Art of Conversation", published in the New Welsh Review, No.55, pp.43-48〕 Giardelli used watercolours and found materials, including shells and driftwood. He was perhaps best known for his abstract relief constructions inspired by nature and the seasons.〔〔 Conversely he was also inspired by Modernist artists including Piet Mondrian.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Learning - Arthur Giardelli )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Arthur Giardelli」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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