William Baziotes

Herausgegeben:Surhone, Lambert M.; Timpledon, Miriam T.; Marseken, Susan F.

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. William Baziotes (June 11, 1912 June 4, 1963) was an American painter influenced by Surrealism and was a contributor to Abstract Expressionism. Born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to Greek parents Angelos and Stella, Baziotes began his formal art training in 1933 at the National Academy of Design in New York City. He studied with Charles Curran, Ivan Olinsky, Gifford Beal, and Leon Kroll. He was employed by the Federal Art Project in the late 1930s. In the 1940s he became friends with many artists in the emerging Abstract Expressionist group. Although he shared the groups'' interest in primitive art and automatism, his work was more in line with European surrealism Later in his career he taught extensively. With David Hare, Robert Motherwell, and Mark Rothko, Baziotes founded the Subjects of the Artist school in New York in 1948. He also taught at the Brooklyn Museum Art School, People''s Art Center, the Museum of Modern Art, and at the City University of New York,Hunter College in Manhattan during the last ten years of his life.

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• Verlag: Betascript Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 132
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 8mm x 150mm x 220mm
• Gewicht: 193g
• ISBN-13: 9786130993122
• ISBN-10: 6130993129
• Artikelnr.: 29849055