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Artist or Maker: Stanley William Hayter (1901-1988)

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Notes: Born in London in 1901, Stanley William Hayter founded Atelier 17 at 17 rue Campagne-Premiere, Paris in 1927. Initially tutored by the Polish artist Joseph Hecht, Hayter learnt to master one of etchings technically hardest tools, the Burin. The technique suited his growing interest in the unconscious aspects of line which he devised into theories about the unconscious source of his line and its subsequent imagery.
Hayter spent the war years in New York where Atelier 17 became a bridge between European emigrés and American artists of the New York School. Hayter can not only be credited for bringing together the likes of Calder, Chagall, Dali, Matta, Miró and Tanguay with De Kooning, Motherwell, Pollock, Riopelle and Rothko through Atelier 17, but his theoretical essays on line and automatism struck an influential accord with current ideas on the unconscious source of imagery which was at the heart of Abstract Expressionism.

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