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by all’. In 1943, Wendt orchestrated a meeting of the artists along with Harry Pieris, with Ivan doing ‘the spade work’. These few Sri Lankan artists named themselves the '43 Group, after the year. They admired other such groups as the
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a whim or fancy…All sorts of things stimulated his imagination: color…shapes…mystery, as in the deep forebodings of the sea and the rumblings of a monsoon equally full of awe, as in the painting known as The Return. There is stark realism in the anxiety with which the family awaits the return of the men gone out to sea.’
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Professor Qadri Ismail postulates that: ‘The problem with Ivan Peries was that he could not be dismissed with a convenient critical phrase or be put out of the way with an easy tag. He was mercurial and so too did his work have that quality. Until the last years of his life… paintings had the air of
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His character at this time was ‘excited and tense, on the spur of the moment’. In the early 1940s he was ‘frantically engaged in a shuttle service, meeting one artist or another – Harry, Beling, Collette. He went all the way to
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Looking through Peries’ process in his works, according to Prof. Ashley Halpe, ‘gives one a richer sense of the complexity of cultural being in a post colonial context and helps to define the heroism of the artist’s triumph over disjuncture and psychic disturbance, enhancing, if that were possible,
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British diplomat Martin
Russell was patron to the 43 Group from its inception, buying all works exhibited by Keyt in one exhibition, and many works by Ivan Peries in the 1940s, financing his flat in London during the scholarship on the condition that Russell have first call on any paintings Peries
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Peries' subjects, repeatedly rural life and the ocean shoreline, were of 'a world neither ancient nor modern, clearly recognisable, strangely, hauntingly meaningful and yet ultimately outside the natural experience'. The subject of Ivan Peries' paintings, considered alongside his cultural
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In 1946 Peries won a government scholarship to the St John's Wood School of Art in London, to train for a further 4 years. During this time he produced a number of panel studies, mainly portraits, figures and nudes. He returned to Sri Lanka in 1949, and painted ‘The
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and digested; they are operative as far as the entire convention of landscape within which the picture exists. Now in his full maturity, yet sufficiently removed in time to have absorbed and digested his experience, Peries has completely mastered his vision and his material.’
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Peries grew up in
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Ivan Peries leant towards art as a vocation from a young age, and was a recognised artist by the age of 20. He refused his parents’ offer to take an academic university degree. Photographer
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Ivan moved to
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recommended Harry Pieris as Ivan’s teacher. Harry
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dislocation, have made him an important post-colonial artist, and a key figure in the origins of contemporary Sri-Lankan art.
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Ivan Peries was part of a community of progressive, intellectual Sri-Lankan artists. They included Justin
Daraniyagala,
198:'Ivan Peries, Paintings 1938 - 88', Prof. Senake Bandaranayake and Manel Fonseka, Tamarind Publications, Columbo 1996
307:'Ivan Peries Paintings, 1938-88', Prof. Senake Bandaranayake and Manel Fonseca, Tamarind Publications, Columbo, 1996
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216:'Potent Icons, All Mysterious', Prof. Ashley Halpe, Sri Lanka Sunday Times (www.sundaytimes.lk/970330/plus2.html)
289:'Ivan Peries and the Outriggers to Association', by Professor Qadri Ismail, Art Sri Lanka (www.artsrilanka.org)
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