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Ben Johnson (born 24 August 1946) is a British painter, known for his series of large, detailed cityscapes.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/exhibitions/liverpoolcityscape/worldpanoramaseries.aspx )〕 ==Life and work== Ben Johnson was born in Llandudno, Wales, in 1946. He studied at the Royal College of Art and has lived and worked in London since 1965. His first solo exhibition was at the Wickesham Gallery, New York, in 1969 immediately after graduating from the Royal College. He is known for his paintings based on architectural spaces and his large-scale, intricately detailed cityscape paintings, which include panoramas of Hong Kong, Zürich, Jerusalem, Liverpool and, most recently, his view of London which was completed as part of a residency at the National Gallery,〔http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/ben-johnson-modern-perspectives〕 London, in 2010. Over the past 46 years he has exhibited in galleries and museums across the world, including the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; the Walker Art Gallery,〔http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/exhibitions/liverpoolcityscape/index.aspx〕 Liverpool; the Art Institute of Chicago; Kunsthalle Tübingen; and the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.museothyssen.org/microsites/exposiciones/2013/hiperrealismo/index_en.html )〕 Madrid. At the first Venice Architecture Biennale in 1991, Norman Foster portrayed his work solely through Johnson's images, before Johnson's work was included in Foster's installation at the 2012 biennale. His work is part of a travelling exhibition currently touring museum venues in Europe, and the first retrospective exhibition of his paintings will open in September 2015 at the Southampton City Museum and Art Gallery. He has undertaken commissions for the Royal Institute of British Architects, the British Museum〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.gac.culture.gov.uk/work.aspx?obj=30564 )〕 and National Museums Liverpool as well as for IBM, HSBC, JP Morgan, British Steel, Hong Kong Telecommunications amongst others. His work is included in the permanent collections of museums worldwide, including the Victoria & Albert Museum, London; the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Regional Services Museum, Hong Kong; and the Government Art Collection.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.gac.culture.gov.uk/artist.aspx?id=107199 )〕 As of 2014, Johnson has been exploring the ageing and scarring of architecture and, in tandem, investigating geometry and the sacred embodied in Islamic architecture. A second solo exhibition at Alan Cristea Gallery opened in May 2014.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=https://www.alancristea.com/exhibition-134-Ben-Johnson-Time-Past-Time-Present )〕 In October 2015, Johnson collected an honorary fellowship from Wrexham’s Glyndŵr University.〔http://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/glyndr-university-bestows-honorary-fellowships-10345217〕 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「Ben Johnson (artist)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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