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Michael Ayrton (20 February 1921 – 16 November 1975)〔T. G. Rosenthal, "Ayrton , Michael (1921–1975)", ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2008, (accessed 24 Jan 2015 )〕 was an English artist and writer, renowned as a painter, printmaker, sculptor and designer, and also as a critic, broadcaster and novelist. His varied output of sculptures, illustrations, poems and stories reveals an obsession with flight, myths, mirrors and mazes. He was a stage and costume designer, working with John Minton on the 1942 John Gielgud production of Macbeth at the age of nineteen; and a book designer and illustrator, for Wyndham Lewis's ''The Human Age'' trilogy. An exhibition, 'Word and Image' (National Book League 1971), organised with Wyndham Lewis, explored their literary and artistic connections.〔The Oxford Companion to English Literature, 6th Edition. Edited by Margaret Drabble, Oxford University Press, 2000 Pp55〕 He also collaborated with Constant Lambert and William Golding. ==Life and career== Ayrton was born Michael Gould, son of the writer Gerald Gould and the Labour politician Barbara Ayrton, and took his mother's maiden name professionally. In his teens during the 1930s he studied art at Heatherley School of Fine Art and St John's Wood Art School, then in Paris under Eugène Berman, where he shared a studio with John Minton. He travelled to Spain and attempted to enlist on the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War, but was rejected for being under-age.〔Martin Baker, ''The Art of Radio Times'', Ashmolean Museum, Oxford/Chris Beetles Limited, 2002, p. 28〕 Beginning in 1961, Michael Ayrton wrote and created many works associated with the myths of the Minotaur and Daedalus, the legendary inventor and maze builder, including bronze sculpture and the pseudo-autobiographical novel "''The Maze Maker''" (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1967). He also wrote and illustrated "''Tittivulus Or The Verbiage Collector''", an account of the efforts of a minor devil to collect idle words. He was the author of several non-fiction works on fine art, including "''Aspects of British Art''" (Collins, 1947).〔http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person.php?LinkID=mp05037〕 He died in 1975. In 1977, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery organised a major retrospective exhibition of his work which subsequently went on tour.〔T. G. Rosenthal, ‘Ayrton, Michael (1921–1975)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004〕 His work is in several important collections including the Tate Gallery, London, National Portrait Gallery, London, Museum of Modern Art, New York, Fry Art Gallery, Essex. 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「Michael Ayrton」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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