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John Ronald Craigie Aitchison CBE RSA RA (13 January 192621 December 2009) was a Scottish painter. He was best known for his many paintings of the Crucifixion,〔Jenni Davis, ''Sacred Art'', Jarrold Publishing, 2005, p22. ISBN 1-84165-155-9〕 one of which hangs behind the altar in the chapter house of Liverpool Cathedral,〔Arabella McIntyre-Brown, ''Liverpool: The First 1000 Years'', Capsica Ltd., 2001, p123. ISBN 1-904099-00-9〕 Italian landscapes, and portraits (mainly of black men, or of dogs). His simple style with bright, childlike colours defied description, and was compared to the Scottish Colourists, primitivists or naive artists, although Brian Sewell dismissed him as "a painter of too considered trifles".〔 His career-long fascination with the crucificion was triggered by a visit to see Salvador Dalí's ''Christ of St John of the Cross'' in 1951 after it was acquired by the Kelvingrove Gallery.〔(Full catalogue entry for ''Crucifixion 9'' ), Tate Gallery〕 ==Early life and education== Aitchison was born in Edinburgh, the son of the lawyer, politician and judge Craigie Mason Aitchison.〔〔(The British Council: Craigie Aitchison )〕 His grandfather, Reverend James Aitchison, was minister at the United Free Church Erskine Kirk in Falkirk. Aitchison was educated at Loretto School, Musselburgh, East Lothian until the death of his father in 1941 and then at home by private tutors.〔(Obituary, ''Guardian'', 22 December 2009 )〕 His mother, Lady Aitchison, played international hockey.〔 Her family owned Tulliallan, an estate in Fife, where Aitchison did some of his first landscape painting. He was rejected for military service in the Second World War on medical grounds. He studied law at Edinburgh University from 1944 to 1946, and at the Middle Temple in London in 1948, before changing career. He returned to Edinburgh in 1950 to practise painting in a converted mews house in Church Lane, and then studied at the Slade School of Fine Art in London from 1952 to 1954 under William Coldstream and Robert Medley. Aitchison won a prize for the best still life his second year. Fellow students included Michael Andrews, Tony Pacitti, Victor Willing, Paula Rego, Myles Murphy and Euan Uglow. Aitchison remained friends with Uglow, and was best man at his wedding. Aitchison was awarded a British Council scholarship in 1955 to study in Italy. He toured the country, and was influenced by early Italian painting, particularly Piero della Francesca.〔 He returned to Scotland, but moved to Kennington in London in 1963. 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「Craigie Aitchison (painter)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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