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Lorenzo Scott was born in 1934 in West Point, Georgia. Scott is a contemporary self-taught artist whose work began to be recognized in the United States in the late 1980s. == Biography == Lorenzo Scott was born on July 23 in 1934 in the small, bustling mill village and railroad hub of West Point, Georgia. When his mother, who worked in the fields supplying cotton to the local mills, lost her job during the Depression, the family moved to Atlanta in search of work.〔Scott, Lorenzo, in personal interview with collector Jim Farmer, Stone Mountain, Georgia, March 4, 2013.〕 One of eleven children, Lorenzo tells of a time in his youth when he first saw his mother make a sketch, and knew even at an early age that he wanted to be able to draw like that. Though Scott attended public school until the tenth grade, he admits to being more interested in drawing than schoolwork.〔Klacsmann, Karen, "Beyond this World: Paintings by Lorenzo Scott." The Morris Museum of Art Gallery Guide. http://www.tfaoi.com/aa/7aa/7aa802.htm, July 2007, accessed on March 5, 2013.〕 "I've been sketching all my life since I was about five," he said, "I got my study lookin' at the museum."〔Moses, Kathy, ''Outsider Art of the South.'' Schiffer Reference Book for Collectors. April 1999.〕 In his youth, Lorenzo’s family lived across the street from a Southern Baptist church where they were active members. Here the young Lorenzo developed the lifelong devout Christian faith that underpins both his art and his life. He often tells stories of extraordinary events that have occurred in his life which stem from his strong faith. In one such story, he reflects on a time when as a child he would observe the comings and goings of churchgoers across the street, and how after observing a funeral gathering at the church, he asked his mother “how come people had to die.” He thought if he stayed awake, he wouldn’t die, so one night he got his mom to let him stay up all night. Hear the story (in his own words here ).〔Scott, Lorenzo, in personal interview at "(Who Fest )" with Alison Watkins and Dara Kam, Atlanta, Georgia, September 2005.〕 As a young man, Scott worked as a house painter and in construction, and didn’t make his first oil painting until the age of twenty-five. It was another twenty years, after he visited New York in 1968 and discovered the paintings of the old masters at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, before he was recognized as a serious artist.〔Galerie Bonheur, ''Lorenzo Scott'', http://www.galeriebonheur.com/american/lorenzoscott/lorenzoscott.htm, accessed on March 9, 2013.〕 So enamored with the paintings of the Renaissance Italian artists, Scott spent hours by himself studying their techniques and style, pouring over the images he found both in books, and in the museums, then experimenting with oil glazing, composition, and learning how to balance color and contrast. According to Karen Towers Klacsmann, curator for research at the Morris Museum of Art and organizer of the Lorenzo Scott Exhibition in 2007, "The path that Scott chose is similar in many ways to a guild apprenticeship in the medieval, Renaissance, or Baroque eras with one distinct difference -- there was no master artist to guide him during his term of apprenticeship. With a talent for drawing, acute observation, and an iron will, he looked to actual paintings to silently reveal the methods and techniques of artists who had produced spectacular works of art hundreds of years ago."〔 As Mr. Scott tells it, "In 1968, I went to New York. I seen them peoples painting on canvas on the street and I went to see the Metropolitan Museum of Art. I thought, that what I need to do ... paint. So I went back and started painting on canvas. It was hard. I keep cussing an' tryin'. When I got back to Atlanta, I'd go to museums downtown like the High Museum to look at the antique paintings, see how they did the oils. Then I'd go back an' study how they do the eyes an' the nose. I wore that place out!"〔 Finding an outlet for his paintings was a struggle for Mr. Scott until one night a turning point came in the form of a vision. "I was comin' from a construction job. I got so tired an', on that Sunday night, a light came on my bed. Sure did! First it came an' it went away. I kinda race up outta the bed, then it came again an' got real bright around my bed, an' that's how in the beginning my paintings started sellin'. It was like the Lord was talkin' to me. I thought I was goin' to heaven when I saw that light and I was happy and I feel myself jumpin' in the bed. Then I found out later that it wasn't just my body jumpin', it was my spirit too. For some reason or other, somethin' was happenin' there that day. It tol' me where to look at. And then my paintings started selling. I sold a painting to a guy for little or nothing. He sold it to someone an' he tried to find me. An one day I was handin' out flyers and he saw one and he called me. It's strange how my name got to his door. He bought a couple more pictures from me an' came back later and brought somebody else with him."〔 ''Revelations: Visionary Content in the Work of Southern Self-Trained Artists'' at the Atlanta College of Art in 1986 was the first exhibition in which Mr. Scott's work was included.〔 The first one-man show of his work at a national museum was at the (Springfield Museum of Art ) in Ohio in 1993 (''An Unexpected Orthodoxy: The Paintings of Lorenzo Scott''). Through the efforts of Bert Hunecke, Mr. Scott's work has since been accepted into the permanent collections of museums in New York and Washington.〔Jim Farmer, Ph.D., Director of the Lorenzo Scott Project, personal correspondence, March 9, 2013.〕 He received the Folk Art Society of America’s Award of Distinction in 2002, which named him a “Modern Renaissance Painter of Folk Art.”〔Charles Vess and Karen Shaffer, curators, “Ancient Spirit, Modern Voice” Art Exhibition. http://www.mythicjourneys.org/passages/newsletterp6.html. May 2004, accessed March 2013.〕 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「Lorenzo Scott」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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