The fourteen works on view date from 1960 through 1980, making this a retrospective of sorts (born in Guatemala City in 1903, Jensen did not begin
his serious painting career until the early»50s and died in 1981).
Not exact matches
Independent, loves to
paint and is
serious about my
career, lots of reading and bike riding.
After an early arts
career involving
painting, metalwork and stained glass, he went to Munich where he was so inspired by Flemish / Dutch Renaissance
paintings that he took up
serious painting in a precise realist style - an idiom which brought him the nickname «the Hans Memling of the Midwest».
In addition to Goldstein's short films, about which much remains to be said, the exhibition also charts Goldstein's
serious explorations in sound art, performance,
painting, and a kind of neo-Futurist-meets-Fluxus concrete poetry that he produced in the last decade of his life and
career.
traces the continual and deliberate evolution in the artist's work from his early to late
career and reveals Gottlieb's constant willingness to reevaluate his
paintings throughout his lifetime.The eleven works on view, created between 1948 and 1972, focus on three specific series: the Pictographs, the Imaginary Landscapes and the Burst
paintings.As Lilly Wei writes, «All three serve as deeply meaningful touchstones, sometimes
serious in intent, other times playful, to which he returned to time and again, in one formulation or another, all his life.»
Throughout his
career, Dine maintained in his sculptures and
paintings a sense of the aesthetic which characterized the Happenings: a willingness to use everyday, sometimes «junk,» materials and to engage with popular culture in a humorous and also
serious way.