The Art of What? Quiz
Eight paintings in this visual essay
featuring what theme?
This visual essay features the art of:
6 men and 2 women;
3 Americans and 5 Europeans
from Britain, Germany and Ireland
Poetry Reading
Milton Avery (1885-1965), American
Oil on canvas, 56" x 44" (w x h), 1957
Munson Williams Proctor Art Institute, Utica, New York
Avery's work is seminal to American abstract painting. While his work is clearly representational, it focuses on color relations, not concerned with creating the illusion of depth as most conventional Western painting. Avery was often thought of as an American Matisse, especially because of his colorful and innovative landscape paintings. His poetic, bold and creative use of drawing and color set him apart from more conventional painting of his era. Early in his career, his work was considered too radical for being too abstract. Yet, when Abstract Expressionism became dominant his work was overlooked, as being too representational. (Source: Wikipedia)
Conversation in a Field
Basil Blackshaw (1932-2016)
Oil on board, 11" x 13" (w x h), 1952-1953
Ulster Museum, Belfast, Ireland
Basil Blackshaw was born in Northern Ireland in 1932. His work was partly autobiographical, much concerned with people, animals, places and experiences. Blackshaw studied at Belfast College of Art and in Paris. He lived in Antrim, Ireland. (Source: Artists in Britain Since 1945 by David Buckman)
The Conversation
Romare Bearden (1911-1988), American
Lithograph, 28" x 22" (w x h), 1979
Tougaloo College Art Collections, Tougaloo, Mississippi
Romare Bearden Foundation
An original lithograph can be purchased for $6,400 at 1stdibs HERE.
His well-known visual motif, the train, suggests to the viewer the Great Migration (African American), a mass movement of blacks from the rural South to the urban North, in search of sanctuary and job opportunities. (Source: 1stdibs)
Romare Bearden (1911-1988) was an African-American artist, author, and songwriter. He worked with many types of media including cartoons, oils, and collages. Born in Charlotte, North Carolina, Bearden grew up in New York City and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and graduated from New York University in 1935.
Connie Mack offered Bearden a place on the Philadelphia Athletics baseball team fifteen years before Jackie Robinson became the first Black player in major league baseball. Sources conflict about whether Mack thought Bearden was white or told Bearden he would have to pass for white. Despite the Athletics World Series in 1929 and 1930, and the American League pennant in 1931, Bearden decided he did not want to hide his identity and chose not to play for the Athletics. After two summers with the Boston Tigers, an injury made Bearden rethink the attention he was giving to baseball and he put greater focus into his art, instead.
He began his artistic career creating scenes of the American South. Later, he worked to express the humanity he felt was lacking in the world after his experience in the US Army during World War II on the European front. He returned to Paris in 1950 and studied art history and philosophy at the Sorbonne. (Source: Wikipedia)
Conversation - Two Seated Nudes
Robin Philipson (1916–1992), English
Oil on board
The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK
Painter and teacher, born Robert James Philipson in Broughton-in-Furness, Lancashire. After attending Edinburgh College of Art, 1936-40, Philipson served in a Scottish regiment during World War II, then joined the staff of Edinburgh College of Art in 1947. Was appointed head of the school of drawing and painting in 1960, a post held until retirement in 1982. Philipson was knighted in 1976. He served on the Scottish Advisory Committee of the British Council and was a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Fine Arts. (Source: Artists in Britain Since 1945 by David Buckman)
Two Red Curtains Blowing
Lois Dodd (1927- ), American
Watercolor and graphite on paper, 15" x 11" (w x h). 1980
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey
Lois Dodd, born 1927 in Montclair, New Jersey, paints in Cushing, Maine, Blairstown, New Jersey, and New York City.
Over the course of a seven-decade-long career, Dodd has developed a practice of observational painting, much of it done outdoors. This grounding in nature allows her works to achieve a delicate balance between landscape and abstract compositions, as in this watercolor sketch of laundry drying in the breeze that presents an evocative study of the day's atmosphere and a variation of formal elements. (Source: Princeton University art Museum, edited)
As part of the wave of New York modernists to explore the coast of Maine just after the end of the Second World War, Dodd helped to change the face of painting in the state. Along with Fairfield Porter, Rackstraw Downes, Alex Katz, Charles DuBack, and Neil Welliver, Dodd began spending her summers in the Mid-Coast region surrounding Penobscot Bay. Attracted by inexpensive old farmhouses, verdant fields, and the bright sunshine, they sought both companionship and an escape from the demands of city life. The break from the city and its urbane art circles allowed them the freedom to explore new modes of painting, both landscapes and figures, that were anathema in the era of Abstract Expressionism. (Source: Wikipedia)
Conversation of Clowns / Clowngespräch
Christian Rohlfs (1849–1938), German
Gouache on canvas, 32" x 24" (w x h), 1912
Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund, Germany
Christian Rohlfs (1849-1938) was a German painter and printmaker, one of the important representatives of German expressionism. In 1929 the town of Hagen opened a Christian Rohlfs Museum. In 1937 the Nazis expelled him from the Prussian Academy of Arts, condemned his work as degenerate, and removed his works from public collections. A year later he died in Hagen, Westfalia at 88 years-old. (Source: Wikipedia)
Two Pears
Euan Uglow (1932-2000), British
Oil on canvas laid on panel, 9" x 6" (w x h), 1990
Private Collection
Euan Ernest Richard Uglow (1932-2000) was a British painter. Uglow was generally a shy artist who shunned publicity as well as honors, including an offer to become a member of the Royal Academy in 1961. However, he did become a trustee of the National Gallery in London in 1991, although, in his own words, he was generally ignored by the other trustees. (Source: Wikipedia)
Conversation Piece
Vanessa Bell (1879-1961), English
Oil on board, 12" x 10" (w x h), 1912
University of Hull Art Collection
Vanessa Bell (1879-1961), born Vanessa Stephen, was an English painter and interior designer, a member of the Bloomsbury Group and the sister of Virginia Woolf. (Source: Wikipedia)
Answer: The Art of Conversation
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