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1926 New York City - 2009 New York City. Known for: Small scale organic abstraction.
The following obituary of the artist is from The New York Times, October 9, 2009, A20. "Charles Seliger, Abstract Expressionist, Dies at 83" by William Grimes. Strongly influenced by the Surrealists... Read full biography
The following obituary of the artist is from The New York Times, October 9, 2009, A20. "Charles Seliger, Abstract Expressionist, Dies at 83" by William Grimes. Strongly influenced by the Surrealists and the idea of automatism — the belief that the artist's undirected hand could reach deep into the... Read full biography
The following obituary of the artist is from The New York Times, October 9, 2009, A20. "Charles Seliger, Abstract Expressionist, Dies at 83" by William Grimes. Strongly influenced by the Surrealists and the idea of automatism — the belief that the artist's undirected hand could reach deep into the unconscious — he layered skeins of fine, interlaced lines and overlapping luminous forms that suggested microscopic views of human tissue or plant specimens, land masses seen from an airplane or... Read full biography
The following obituary of the artist is from The New York Times, October 9, 2009, A20. "Charles Seliger, Abstract Expressionist, Dies at 83" by William Grimes. Strongly influenced by the Surrealists and the idea of automatism — the belief that the artist's undirected hand could reach deep into the unconscious — he layered skeins of fine, interlaced lines and overlapping luminous forms that suggested microscopic views of human tissue or plant specimens, land masses seen from an airplane or undiscovered worlds exploding into being. Charles Seliger, whose small-scale, jewel-like paintings of imaginary natural forms made him the most idiosyncratic of the first-generation Abstract Expressionists, died in Manhattan on Oct. 1. He was 83 and lived... Read full biography
The following obituary of the artist is from The New York Times, October 9, 2009, A20. "Charles Seliger, Abstract Expressionist, Dies at 83" by William Grimes. Strongly influenced by the Surrealists and the idea of automatism — the belief that the artist's undirected hand could reach deep into the unconscious — he layered skeins of fine, interlaced lines and overlapping luminous forms that suggested microscopic views of human tissue or plant specimens, land masses seen from an airplane or undiscovered worlds exploding into being. Charles Seliger, whose small-scale, jewel-like paintings of imaginary natural forms made him the most idiosyncratic of the first-generation Abstract Expressionists, died in Manhattan on Oct. 1. He was 83 and lived in Westchester County, N.Y. The cause was a stroke, said his son, Robert. While fellow artists like Jackson P... Read full biography
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Art Method
- •Easel Painting
- •Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
Art Media
Art Style
- •Abstraction, Abstract
- •Pure Abstraction, Line, Shape, Color, Texture
Art Subject
- •Botanics, Plant Life
- •Still Life
Awards/Recognition
- •Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
Chronology
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Added Description
- •Abstraction Specialty
- •Art Educator:Teaching, Scholarship, Workshops and/or Writing
- •Self Taught, Autodidact
Notable Commercial Gallery Representation, Pre 21s
- •Art of This Century, Peggy Guggenheim, New York City
Exhibition of Museum
- •Art Institute of Chicago
- •Museum of Modern Art, New York
- •Smithsonian Institution/Museums
- •Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum/Museum of Non Objective Painting
- •Whitney Biennial Museum of American Art
Exhibition By An Art School
- •The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts