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1924 New York, New York - 1995 New Brunswick, Canada. Known for: Portrait, urban genre, rural landscape.
Born in New York City to Russian immigrant parents who fled Czarist Russia, Bernard Safran showed early art talent and attended New York's High School of Music and Art. He later graduated from Pratt... Read full biography
Born in New York City to Russian immigrant parents who fled Czarist Russia, Bernard Safran showed early art talent and attended New York's High School of Music and Art. He later graduated from Pratt Institute, and then served in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in China, Burma and India during... Read full biography
Born in New York City to Russian immigrant parents who fled Czarist Russia, Bernard Safran showed early art talent and attended New York's High School of Music and Art. He later graduated from Pratt Institute, and then served in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in China, Burma and India during World War II. In 1946, he began work as a commercial illustrator, freelancing as a book-jacket illustrator for mysteries and westerns. He earned adequate money in these jobs but decided to focus on fine... Read full biography
Born in New York City to Russian immigrant parents who fled Czarist Russia, Bernard Safran showed early art talent and attended New York's High School of Music and Art. He later graduated from Pratt Institute, and then served in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in China, Burma and India during World War II. In 1946, he began work as a commercial illustrator, freelancing as a book-jacket illustrator for mysteries and westerns. He earned adequate money in these jobs but decided to focus on fine art. In the mid 1950s, he spent six months studying masterpieces in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, examining the techniques used by such artists as Rubens, Velasquez and Rembrandt. Studying and copying these Old Masters, he learned an oil-glaze... Read full biography
Born in New York City to Russian immigrant parents who fled Czarist Russia, Bernard Safran showed early art talent and attended New York's High School of Music and Art. He later graduated from Pratt Institute, and then served in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in China, Burma and India during World War II. In 1946, he began work as a commercial illustrator, freelancing as a book-jacket illustrator for mysteries and westerns. He earned adequate money in these jobs but decided to focus on fine art. In the mid 1950s, he spent six months studying masterpieces in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, examining the techniques used by such artists as Rubens, Velasquez and Rembrandt. Studying and copying these Old Masters, he learned an oil-glaze technique that gives Safran's work a special resonant coloration. He built up the surfaces slowly, layer upon layer, "accumulating richness, at the sa... Read full biography
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About Bernard Safran: Keywords
Keywords (19)
Art Method
- •Advertising Art
- •Easel Painting
- •Illustration, Illustrator
Art Media
- •Acrylic Paint
- •Gouache
- •Oil Paint
Art Style
Art Subject
- •Architecture Trained: Design and Drawing
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •New York City
- •Portraits, Portraiture
- •Street Scenes, Street Genre
- •Urban Scene, City Genre
Art School
- •Pratt Institute of Art, Brooklyn, Student
Chronology
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Added Description
- •Commercial Art and Design
- •New York City Specialty