Sandra Blow

**Sandra Betty Blow** RA (sha hudu ga Satumba shekara ta dubu ɗaya da dari tara da Ashirin da biyar ga Ashirin da biyu ga Agusta a shekara ta dubu biyu da shida) ta kasance mai zanen zance na Ingilishi kuma ɗaya daga cikin majagaba na ƙungiyar Abstract na Burtaniya na shekara ta dubu ɗaya da dari tara da hamsin. Ayyukan Blow suna da sikeli manya-manyan sikeli, launuka masu launi waɗanda aka yi daga kayan da aka jefar.

## Farkon rayuwa
An haife ta a Landan, tana fama da zazzabi mai ja tun tana yarinya, tana yin hutun karshen mako da hutu a gonar kakaninta da ke Kent. A can ta shafe lokaci mai tsawo tana yin zane, kafin ta shiga makarantar fasaha ta Saint Martin tsakanin shekara ta dubu ɗaya da dari tara da arba'in da daya zowa shekara ta dubu ɗaya da dari tara da arba'in da shida, sannan kuma Royal Academy Schools, shekara ta dubu ɗaya da dari tarada arba'in da shida zuwa shekara ta dubu ɗaya da dari tara da arba'in da bakwai.  Daga baya ta yi rajista a Accademia di Belle Arti a Rome, inda ta sadu da Alberto Burri, abokin aikinta na 'yan shekaru.  Blow da Burri sun yi tafiya tare a Italiya tare kafin su koma aiki a Paris, kuma Burri ya zama tasiri mai tsawo a cikin aikinta.

## A Rayuwar farko
An haifi Sandra Betty Blow a ranar sha hudu ga Satumba shekara ta dubu ɗaya da dari tara da Ashirin da biyar a Newington, London. Ta fito daga dangin Yahudawa; mahaifinta, Yakubu, wanda ya kasance mai sayar da 'ya'yan itace, kuma mahaifiyarta tana da 'ya'ya uku, Sandra ita ce ta biyu. A lokacin kuruciyarta, Blow ta shafe karshen mako da hutu a Kent a gonar 'ya'yan itacen kakaninta. 

A cikin a shekara ta dubu ɗaya da dari tara da talatin da hudu, Blow ta sha wahala tare da zazzaɓi mai ja, sannan kuma zazzabin rheumatic ya biyo baya, wanda zuciyarta ba ta warke sosai ba. Bayan ya halarci makarantar firamare ta gida, Blow ya sami ilimi a makarantar mata masu zaman kansu. A lokacin da take da shekaru goma sha hudu, an kwashe Blow tare da mahaifiyarta da 'yan uwanta biyu zuwa Paddock Wood a Kent, kusa da gonar 'ya'yan itacen kakaninta, inda ta shafe lokacinta na karatu, zane da zane.  

Bayan barin makaranta a 14, Blow ta yi rajista a Makarantar Art na Saint Martin a 1941, inda ta yi karatu har zuwa 1946 a karkashin malamai ciki har da Ruskin Spear .  A wannan lokacin ta shiga cikin yanayin zamantakewar masu fasaha, tare da saduwa da mutane irin su Lucian Freud, John Minton da Francis Bacon . Ta yi ɗan gajeren lokaci a cikin 1947 a makarantun Royal Academy, amma ta ga koyarwar ba ta da kyau, don haka a maimakon haka ta tafi Italiya don nazarin fasahar gargajiya. A can Nicolas Carone ya yi mata wahayi don yin rajista a Accademia di Belle Arti a Rome. A can ta sadu da Alberto Burri, wanda ta fara dangantaka da za ta yi tasiri ga aikinta har tsawon rayuwarta kuma sun yi tafiya tare a Italiya a lokacin 1948. 

Bayan Italiya, Blow ta yi tafiya a Spain da Faransa kuma ita da Burri sun yi aiki tare a Paris a lokacin 1949, amma gano tasirin Burri ya yi yawa, Blow ya koma Birtaniya a 1950 don neman aikinta ba tare da tasirinsa ba.   Ma'auratan za su ƙirƙira ayyuka don mayar da martani ga juna a cikin 1950s da 60s yayin da Burri ya tashi zuwa karramawar duniya. Blow ta fuskanci ƙalubalen ba wai kawai ta kafa kanta a matsayin mace mai fasaha ba a cikin shekarun 1950 amma har ma a matsayin mai zane-zane. Siyar da farko ta kowane ɗayan ayyukanta shine Roland Penrose, wanda ya kafa Cibiyar Fasaha ta Zamani, wanda ya tabbatar da zama muhimmin lokaci a cikin aikinta.

Nasarar Blow ta ƙara canzawa lokacin da babban gidan wasan kwaikwayo na London, Gimpel Fils, ta fara wakiltar aikinta daga 1951.  A karkashin Gimpel Fils, Blow tana da nune-nunen nune-nunen na yau da kullun kuma ta tabbatar da wasan kwaikwayo na farko na solo a New York. Gidan wasan kwaikwayo kuma ya wakilci masu fasahar St Ives, gami da Barbara Hepworth, wanda ya fara haɗin rayuwar Blow tare da garin bakin teku na Burtaniya.  A cikin 1957, Blow ta koma St Ives na shekara guda kuma zai dawo can bayan shekaru don ya rayu na dindindin. 

A cikin 1961, Blow ta fara koyar da zane-zane a Royal College of Art,  inda ta kasance har zuwa 1975 kuma ta sami matsayi a matsayin abokiyar girmamawa, yayin da kuma ta yi zane a ɗakinta a Chelsea, London . An zabe ta zuwa Royal Academy a 1978.  

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