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# Read * David Park: A Painter's Life by Nancy Boas ✓ eBook or Kindle ePUB. David Park: A Painter's Life David Park (19111960), transplanted Bostonian turned ground-breaking West Coast painter, led the way in creating what became known as Bay Area Figurative Arta daring move during the post-World War II years when abstract expressionism held sway. As the book deepens our admiration for Park’s figurative paintings, it affirms his stature as a major figure in American art, one who spurred the figurative impulse across the United States and abroad.. She plunges us into the lively 1940s and 1950s
| Title | : | David Park: A Painter's Life |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.76 (990 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0520268415 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 368 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-09-24 |
| Language | : | English |
Five Stars A good, informative book. Small print however may be a problem to some.. David Park Brought to the Forefront In the prologue of "David Park: A Painter's Life," a newly published biography of the pioneering representational painter, author Nancy Boas describes the scene at Sotheby's New York on May 15, 2007. That evening, a David Park oil, "Standing Male Nude in a Shower," brought the impressive hammer price of $1,160,000. It was the first Park painting to sell for over a million dollars. As Boas notes, the 2007 auction indicated "the rising interest in his (Park's) place among mid-twentieth century artists." Since then four other Parks have cleared the million dollar mark, including Park's broadly brushed 1959 nude in a. "Examining the Stature of David Park" according to Grady Harp. David Park (March 17, 1911 - September 20, 1960) was a painter and a pioneer of the Bay Area Figurative School of painting during the 1950s, a school of artists he helped form that included Richard Diebenkorn and Elmer Bischoff. His presence was keenly felt in the formation of the careers of Nathan Oliveira, Manuel Neri, Joan Brown, Paul Wonner and Theophilus Brown, and Henry Villiermme. His work was a marriage of abstract style used to create representational paintings: blocks of color became human forms without any pretense of trying to hide the direction he was taking. He loved life and painted his observation
David Park (19111960), transplanted Bostonian turned ground-breaking West Coast painter, led the way in creating what became known as Bay Area Figurative Arta daring move during the post-World War II years when abstract expressionism held sway. As the book deepens our admiration for Park’s figurative paintings, it affirms his stature as a major figure in American art, one who spurred the figurative impulse across the United States and abroad.. She plunges us into the lively 1940s and 1950s Bay Area art scene, pointing to Park’s work as a bold alternative to the abstractions of Clyfford Still. Boas changes our understanding of Park as a painter, highlighting his strong influence on Richard Diebenkorn, Elmer Bischoff, and other artists at the California School of Fine Arts and the University of California, Berkeley. In this beautifully illustrated biography, compiled from comprehensive and sweeping interviews, Nancy Boas traces Park’s resolute search for a new kind of figuration, one that would penetrate abstract expressionism’s thickly layered surfaces and infuse them with human presence
"An enthralling read."--"San Francisco Magazine""Just as Park put the humanity back into an era of abstraction, Boas brings David Park the man into the foreground in a literary and historical sense."--"Huffington Post""A welcome volume."--"Los Angeles Times""A project put together with care."--"San Francisco Chronicle""David Park's bold colors and everyday subjects helped usher in a new modernism."--"Berkeleyside""Even insiders who thought they knew this complicated artist will know him far better thanks to Boas."--"San Francisco Chronicle""Boas's passion shows in how persuasively she argues for a wider recognition of Park's importance."--"Art Critical""Shows how Park conferred a human presence on the painting of his time, influencing artists such as Richard Diebenkorn and Elmer Bischoff."--"San Jose Mercury News""The first full biographical portrait, not a memoir, of Park (1911-1960), the reticent founder of Bay Area Figuration, the region's only modern art movement so far to win global recognition."--Kenneth Baker"San Francisco Chronicle" (12/01/2013)
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