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“艺术有着自身魅力的感染力……她给人以感动、启示和深思……好的艺术作品需要经得住时间的检验和社会的评判，还需要与包括种族主义的偏见在内的因素做斗争……”（摘自I·沃特斯2005年演讲）
2006年他创作了最后一个人体肖像雕塑作品，是为科学家S·霍金做的，为此I·沃特斯进行了大量的深入研究，发挥了自己擅长形体语言的创作风格，着重点落在了S·霍金的上半身上，充分展示了闻名于世的“S·霍金特征”由内向外漫溢的人格魅力。该雕塑将安置在剑桥大学有关部门学院内。
1944年至1951年，I·沃特斯在伯明翰艺术学校学习。他非常崇拜C·杰嘎的作品，也很钦佩爱伯斯坦和才德金的雕塑作品。从1951年到1952年, 他以医务兵种服了军役。1952年至1981年，他是职业艺术教师，之后他将自己毕生的精力，都贡献给了雕塑事业。
1981年I·沃特斯曾说，他希望他的雕塑能表达“生命的强大和力量”，希望自己的雕塑能“适合社会、反映现实”，希望自己的雕塑能使人们记住那些“为人类的社会主义事业前景贡献了许多力量的政治家们”，希望自己的雕塑能带来人们对“保卫工人阶级的权利，反对种族歧视和偏见而战斗的政治家们的敬意”。
I·沃特斯是英国肖像雕塑家协会的会员，2006年在他病逝前的几个星期，他荣获了协会最高奖J·梅·戴维斯银质奖章 [图15]。在协会的历史上，1965年意大利的曼祖曾荣获此殊荣。
我认为I·沃特斯是“形体语言”雕塑大师，众所周知，创作人物雕塑，尤其是人物的胸像，是很难避免单调感的，我感到他的创作方式是极其耐人寻味的。
Ian Walters 1930～2006
“Art has a power of its own…to move and inspire and make you think hard…about the continuing need for social justice…the need to combat racism and the prejudice within as all” quote from Ian Walters 2005.
Ian Walters， the leading artist and sculptor of the socialist left in England was born in Solihull, Birmingham, in 1930 and died of cancer in London in August 2006.
He will be best remembered for his statue of Nelson Mandela which he finished shortly before he died and which will be unveiled soon in central London.
Ian Walters met Nelson Mandela in 2000 at Bedford in England when he unveiled a portrait bust by Ian of the anti-apartheid campaigner Trevor Huddleston.Ian was impressed by the way Mandela in his speech held his hands out-stretched as if to impress the whole crowd of many races who had come to watch the ceremony.It was this pose that Ian Walters used in his three meter high statue.
Ian Walters travelled to South Africa and modelled a portrait from life of Nelson Mandela in 2000.
In the early 1980`s Ian Walters modelled an over life size head 2 meters of Mandela which was placed near the Festival Hall in London. Right wing activists destroyed it twice, once by fire and once with hammers. A third cast in bronze which replaced them has survived.
Another statue by Ian Walters of the anti nuclear socialist Fenner Brockway was vandalised by right wing extremists shortly after its unveiling in 1985 in London. These two statues and another of the socialist Prime Minister Harold Wilson [1999] show how Ian Walters was able to create a strong feeling of a real person by showing him in a typical pose.
Ian Walters made memorials in 1985 to the left wing freedom fighters from England who went to fight on the republican side in the Spanish Civil War in 1936 and the trade union workers strike in London in 1995.
Ian Walters made many portraits of leading persons in left wing politics in England. These included Anthony Benn, Arthur Scargill, Tom Driver and Allan Bush the musical composer.In 2005 he made portrait of the writer Fay Weldon and in 2006 his last portrait was of the scientist Stephen Hawking. As in his full figures Ian Walters used the sitter’s body language in his portrait busts to give them a typical pose and energy.
Ian Walters studied at the Birmingham Art School from 1944 to 1951. He was impressed by the ideas of the sculptor Charles Jagger and he admired the sculptor’s Epstein and Zadkine. From 1951 to 1952, he did army service in the medical corps. After 1952 he worked as an art teacher until 1981, after this time he gave all his energy to sculpture.
In 1981 Ian Walters said that he wanted his sculpture to be a "powerful expression of life" and that it should "Be of relevance to society and respond to current events" and wanted it to "bring attention to those people in politics who had done the most to advance the cause of socialism and to defend the rights of working people and to battle against racial discrimination and prejudice".
Ian Walters was a member of the society of portrait sculptors and in 2006 only a few weeks before his death, he received its highest award the Jean Masson Davis Silver Medal.
by Anthony Stones
“艺术有着自身魅力的感染力……她给人以感动、启示和深思……好的艺术作品需要经得住时间的检验和社会的评判，还需要与包括种族主义的偏见在内的因素做斗争……”（摘自I·沃特斯2005年演讲）
2006年他创作了最后一个人体肖像雕塑作品，是为科学家S·霍金做的，为此I·沃特斯进行了大量的深入研究，发挥了自己擅长形体语言的创作风格，着重点落在了S·霍金的上半身上，充分展示了闻名于世的“S·霍金特征”由内向外漫溢的人格魅力。该雕塑将安置在剑桥大学有关部门学院内。
1944年至1951年，I·沃特斯在伯明翰艺术学校学习。他非常崇拜C·杰嘎的作品，也很钦佩爱伯斯坦和才德金的雕塑作品。从1951年到1952年, 他以医务兵种服了军役。1952年至1981年，他是职业艺术教师，之后他将自己毕生的精力，都贡献给了雕塑事业。
1981年I·沃特斯曾说，他希望他的雕塑能表达“生命的强大和力量”，希望自己的雕塑能“适合社会、反映现实”，希望自己的雕塑能使人们记住那些“为人类的社会主义事业前景贡献了许多力量的政治家们”，希望自己的雕塑能带来人们对“保卫工人阶级的权利，反对种族歧视和偏见而战斗的政治家们的敬意”。
I·沃特斯是英国肖像雕塑家协会的会员，2006年在他病逝前的几个星期，他荣获了协会最高奖J·梅·戴维斯银质奖章 [图15]。在协会的历史上，1965年意大利的曼祖曾荣获此殊荣。
我认为I·沃特斯是“形体语言”雕塑大师，众所周知，创作人物雕塑，尤其是人物的胸像，是很难避免单调感的，我感到他的创作方式是极其耐人寻味的。
Ian Walters 1930～2006
“Art has a power of its own…to move and inspire and make you think hard…about the continuing need for social justice…the need to combat racism and the prejudice within as all” quote from Ian Walters 2005.
Ian Walters， the leading artist and sculptor of the socialist left in England was born in Solihull, Birmingham, in 1930 and died of cancer in London in August 2006.
He will be best remembered for his statue of Nelson Mandela which he finished shortly before he died and which will be unveiled soon in central London.
Ian Walters met Nelson Mandela in 2000 at Bedford in England when he unveiled a portrait bust by Ian of the anti-apartheid campaigner Trevor Huddleston.Ian was impressed by the way Mandela in his speech held his hands out-stretched as if to impress the whole crowd of many races who had come to watch the ceremony.It was this pose that Ian Walters used in his three meter high statue.
Ian Walters travelled to South Africa and modelled a portrait from life of Nelson Mandela in 2000.
In the early 1980`s Ian Walters modelled an over life size head 2 meters of Mandela which was placed near the Festival Hall in London. Right wing activists destroyed it twice, once by fire and once with hammers. A third cast in bronze which replaced them has survived.
Another statue by Ian Walters of the anti nuclear socialist Fenner Brockway was vandalised by right wing extremists shortly after its unveiling in 1985 in London. These two statues and another of the socialist Prime Minister Harold Wilson [1999] show how Ian Walters was able to create a strong feeling of a real person by showing him in a typical pose.
Ian Walters made memorials in 1985 to the left wing freedom fighters from England who went to fight on the republican side in the Spanish Civil War in 1936 and the trade union workers strike in London in 1995.
Ian Walters made many portraits of leading persons in left wing politics in England. These included Anthony Benn, Arthur Scargill, Tom Driver and Allan Bush the musical composer.In 2005 he made portrait of the writer Fay Weldon and in 2006 his last portrait was of the scientist Stephen Hawking. As in his full figures Ian Walters used the sitter’s body language in his portrait busts to give them a typical pose and energy.
Ian Walters studied at the Birmingham Art School from 1944 to 1951. He was impressed by the ideas of the sculptor Charles Jagger and he admired the sculptor’s Epstein and Zadkine. From 1951 to 1952, he did army service in the medical corps. After 1952 he worked as an art teacher until 1981, after this time he gave all his energy to sculpture.
In 1981 Ian Walters said that he wanted his sculpture to be a "powerful expression of life" and that it should "Be of relevance to society and respond to current events" and wanted it to "bring attention to those people in politics who had done the most to advance the cause of socialism and to defend the rights of working people and to battle against racial discrimination and prejudice".
Ian Walters was a member of the society of portrait sculptors and in 2006 only a few weeks before his death, he received its highest award the Jean Masson Davis Silver Medal.
by Anthony Stones