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Figuration/Abstraction: Fairfield Porter/Willem De Koonig, Jud Yalkut
Figuration/Abstraction: Fairfield Porter/Willem De Koonig, Jud Yalkut
Art and Art History Faculty Publications
While the words of figurative art and abstract expressionism may seem to be eons apart for the average viewer, it was the premise of "Figuration/Abstraction: Fairfield Porter/Willem de Kooning" to explore, in the worlds of curator David Leach, "a shared attitude regarding the essentials of image making." In the collision of realism and abstraction which highlighted a long period of East Coast painting characterized by these two major figures. Leach has seen a love of color and "a strong interest in shape" as well as "a love for the fast-moving gestural mark."
Frank Tolar Retrospective (Exhibition Catalogue), Sam Yates, Elizabeth Chase Tolar, John Rosenthal, Horace Farlowe, Timothy O. Hicks
Frank Tolar Retrospective (Exhibition Catalogue), Sam Yates, Elizabeth Chase Tolar, John Rosenthal, Horace Farlowe, Timothy O. Hicks
Ewing Gallery of Art & Architecture
Born in 1940, Frank Tolar was a talented and accomplished Southeastern artist. He taught at various institutions including the Art Department, North Carolina A&T University, Greensboro; the School of Architecture, The University of Tennessee Knoxville; and The School of Architecture, University of North Carolina, Charlotte.
Figuration/Abstraction: Fairfield Porter/Willem De Koonig, The Metropolitan Museum Of Art, Wright State University
Figuration/Abstraction: Fairfield Porter/Willem De Koonig, The Metropolitan Museum Of Art, Wright State University
Art and Art History Faculty Publications
The work of Fairfield Porter defies classification partially due to its directness and seeming simplicity, which ma ks an undercurrent of complexity and mystery-even ambiguity. The term "American Realist Painter," so often attached to Porter's name, only adds to this difficulty in that the context of Porter's development as an artist was a setting of varied styles and influence . Even among the artist of the past that Porter admired-Velazquez, Rubens, and Vuillard, to name a few-variation is prominent. Much ha been said about Porter's initial stance a a maturing artist in the I 940s and '50s as being au …
Figuration/Abstraction, David Leach, Ronald R. Geibert
Figuration/Abstraction, David Leach, Ronald R. Geibert
Art and Art History Faculty Publications
Figuration/Abstraction was a multimedia component for an exhibition held at Wright State University Art Galleries, Dayton, Ohio in 1995. The exhibition compared and contrasted the painting and drawings of Fairfield Porter and Wilem de Kooning. Curator for the exhibition was David Leach. The attached PDF are samples from this exhibition.
The Problem Of Artists As Professionals In Germany, Mcclelland
The Problem Of Artists As Professionals In Germany, Mcclelland
History Faculty Publications
The social history of art, or more precisely, the social history of artists, has until fairly recently been an abused stepchild of both art history and "mainstream" history. Yet historians have at their disposal from the nineteenth century on increasingly rich material on both individual and collective artistic life. These sources have not been fully exploited.