Bay Area Figurative Art: 1950-1965
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| Rating | : | 4.57 (839 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0520068424 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 231 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-01-23 |
| Language | : | English |
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Soon Elmer Bischoff and Richard Diebenkorn joined Park and other painters such as Nathan Oliveira, Theophilus Brown, James Weeks, and Paul Wonner in the move away from abstraction and toward figurative subject matter. In 1949 David Park destroyed many of his nonobjective canvases and began a new style of consciously naive figuration. When artists such as Bruce McGaw, Manuel Neri, and Joan Brown emerged as a second generation of figurative artists, the momentum grew for a powerful new development in American painting.The achievement of Bay Area Figurative
"It had gotten to the point where anything seemed possible in abstract painting, and therefore nothing was. It was a liberation to paint the figure, to deal with forms that followed other forms."--Richard Diebenkorn, "National Observer, 22 April 1968.
Larger and more illustrations would make it even better, but good for what it is Thorough and complete telling of the prime years. Larger and more illustrations would make it even better, but good for what it is.. "Keeping representational art alive" according to L. D. Wellings. Caroline Jones has done a stunning job, in her book 'Bay Area Figurative Art', of defining and chronicaling the counter movement, to abstract expressionism, of representational, figurative art, in California, from 1950-1965. The book was originally published as the catalogue for the 1989-1990 exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.For the student as well as the established artist, this book is indispensible as a reference in understanding the dynamics and art of David Park, Richard Diebenkorn, Elmer Bishoff and James Weeks and the others who followed. The color il. Max Willmann said Bay Area Figurative Art: 1950-1965. Bay Area Figurative Art: 1950-1965This is a wonderful book with a specific emphasis on the bay area figurative scene circa 50's & 60's. It vignettes several artists from the heavily enriched San Francisco Bay Area. I found it a good place to discover some lesser-known artists that played a part of the emerging figurative art movement. This book presents the last stirrings of abstract expressionism into the birth of a newly re-discovered figure. If you enjoy the works of Richard Diebenkorn , David Parks, Paul Wonner, Joan Brown, Elmer Bischoff, you may find a few other artist in