THE FIFTH OF NOVEMBER

© The Artist's Estate

THE FIFTH OF NOVEMBER

Colin Hayes (1919 – 2003)

Details

Dimension
64.8 X 76.8 CM
Media
OIL ON CANVAS
Accession number
P98

Summary

Hayes was born in London, and studied at Christ Church, Oxford and the Ruskin School of Drawing. He was on the staff of the Royal College of Art and was one of the most significant art teachers of his generation, nurturing such talents as David Hockney, Peter Blake, RB Kitaj and Patrick Caulfield. He was elected a Royal Academician in 1963 and was a regular exhibitor at the Summer Exhibitions. Hayes also wrote widely on art history, a discipline he considered essential for any artist; and published a series of books on painters, including Renoir, Rembrandt and Stanley Spencer. His painting here shows an artist with two life-size models, creating a tableau from them in the same way that Paula Rego does with much of her own work. Stuffed creatures of all sorts, from cats to monstrous men and women fill her studio and act as models in all her paintings, prints and drawings.

Thresholds, British Council 2010

Glossary

  • Drawing

    The depiction of shapes and forms on a flat surface chiefly by means of lines although colour and shading may also be included. Materials most commonly used are pencil, ink, crayon, charcoal, chalk and pastel, although other materials, including paint, can be used in combination.

  • Painting

    Work of art made with paint on a surface. Often the surface, also called a support, is a tightly stretched piece of canvas, paper or a wooden panel. Painting involves a wide range of techniques and materials, along with the artist's intellectual concerns effecting the content of a work.