biography
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| lived:
| (1905–70)
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| biography:
| Painter and sculptor, born in New York City, New York, USA. He studied at the Art Students League (1922–6), and joined his father's clothing manufacturing business (1927–37). He lived in New York City, and by 1944 began his series of cosmic landscapes using stripes, circles, and colour divisions, as seen in ‘Genetic Moment’ (1947). He was one of the founders, along with William Baziotes, Mark Rothko and Robert Motherwell, of an art school, Subjects of the Artist, New York (1947). A leader of colour-field painting, as seen in ‘Onement I’ (1948), he stressed the use of colour and mythology. His sculptures have a classical composure, as in ‘Broken Obelisk’ (1967). |
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