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1905 Ossining, New York - 1987. Known for: Surreal landscape-figures, mural.
Jared French was born in 1905, attended Amherst College in the 1920s, and died in Italy in 1988. He was a painter, draftsman, sculptor, muralist and print-maker of enigmatic, nearly surrealist... Read full biography
Jared French was born in 1905, attended Amherst College in the 1920s, and died in Italy in 1988. He was a painter, draftsman, sculptor, muralist and print-maker of enigmatic, nearly surrealist compositions of the male figure. His work has also been described as magic realism. Isolation, alienation... Read full biography
Jared French was born in 1905, attended Amherst College in the 1920s, and died in Italy in 1988. He was a painter, draftsman, sculptor, muralist and print-maker of enigmatic, nearly surrealist compositions of the male figure. His work has also been described as magic realism. Isolation, alienation and anxiety seem his major themes. However, French's intentions about his painting are almost as mysterious as the paintings themselves, and he clearly intended them to remain that way. He hinted that... Read full biography
Jared French was born in 1905, attended Amherst College in the 1920s, and died in Italy in 1988. He was a painter, draftsman, sculptor, muralist and print-maker of enigmatic, nearly surrealist compositions of the male figure. His work has also been described as magic realism. Isolation, alienation and anxiety seem his major themes. However, French's intentions about his painting are almost as mysterious as the paintings themselves, and he clearly intended them to remain that way. He hinted that the answer to his works could be found in the writings of the psychoanalyst, C.G. Jung, whose Archetypes of the Collective Unconscious was first published in 1939. French was a strong early influence on the well-known artist Paul Cadmus, also a... Read full biography
Jared French was born in 1905, attended Amherst College in the 1920s, and died in Italy in 1988. He was a painter, draftsman, sculptor, muralist and print-maker of enigmatic, nearly surrealist compositions of the male figure. His work has also been described as magic realism. Isolation, alienation and anxiety seem his major themes. However, French's intentions about his painting are almost as mysterious as the paintings themselves, and he clearly intended them to remain that way. He hinted that the answer to his works could be found in the writings of the psychoanalyst, C.G. Jung, whose Archetypes of the Collective Unconscious was first published in 1939. French was a strong early influence on the well-known artist Paul Cadmus, also a painter of the male figure, whom he met at the Art Students League. French served as the model for Cadmus' firs... Read full biography
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