Richard allen op artist biography

English painter

Richard Allen (8 February 1933 – 9 February 1999) was a British Minimalist, Abstract, Systems, Fundamental, and Geometric painter and printmaker.

Biography.

Richard Allen was an Abstract artist of the 20th century who worked across painting, graphic and technological media.

Richard Allen (8 February – 9 February ) was a.

Born in Worcester, Richard Allen trained firstly as an agricultural engineer.

Abstract artist, teacher and exhibition consultant, born in Worcester.

Allen worked prolifically from 1960 until his death,^[1] in 1999, from motor neurone disease.

During the winter of 2016/2017 Tate Britain exhibited its Richard Allen work, Six Panel Systems Painting (1972), in a BP Spotlight display.

1960s Pop art, Op art and Kinetic Art

In the early 1960s he became involved In the Op art and Kinetic art movements, exhibiting with Bridget Riley, Jeffrey Steele, Michael Kidner and Peter Sedgley. A fascination with interferometry influenced his work at this time and enabled him to develop the linear element in the collage works into a form of optical painting.

This work was done using fast acid dye on canvas and an acrylic resist line for the structure of the paintings. During this period Allen was also working on a series of bla