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1908 Waterbury, Connecticut - 1989 New Haven, Connecticut. Known for: Painting-surreal dream-like images, figure, mask.
In the early 1930s, George Marinko, was known as one of the most pure surrealists of all the American artists pursuing that pioneering style. He also did automatic drawing that revealed through his... Read full biography
In the early 1930s, George Marinko, was known as one of the most pure surrealists of all the American artists pursuing that pioneering style. He also did automatic drawing that revealed through his personal complex symbolism his interest in mythology and psycho-analysis. Many of his works had... Read full biography
In the early 1930s, George Marinko, was known as one of the most pure surrealists of all the American artists pursuing that pioneering style. He also did automatic drawing that revealed through his personal complex symbolism his interest in mythology and psycho-analysis. Many of his works had allusions to the temptations of Adam and Eve and other suggestions of male/female conflict. His images seem dreamlike and include clowns, humans, dolls, and puppets as well as objects that are bending and... Read full biography
In the early 1930s, George Marinko, was known as one of the most pure surrealists of all the American artists pursuing that pioneering style. He also did automatic drawing that revealed through his personal complex symbolism his interest in mythology and psycho-analysis. Many of his works had allusions to the temptations of Adam and Eve and other suggestions of male/female conflict. His images seem dreamlike and include clowns, humans, dolls, and puppets as well as objects that are bending and twisting, and "any one of them may be running, burning, or melting" (Falk 2185). His painting, Sirius (the Dog Star, the brightest star in the heavens), seems an incongruous combination of very realistically-painted still-life objects including a... Read full biography
In the early 1930s, George Marinko, was known as one of the most pure surrealists of all the American artists pursuing that pioneering style. He also did automatic drawing that revealed through his personal complex symbolism his interest in mythology and psycho-analysis. Many of his works had allusions to the temptations of Adam and Eve and other suggestions of male/female conflict. His images seem dreamlike and include clowns, humans, dolls, and puppets as well as objects that are bending and twisting, and "any one of them may be running, burning, or melting" (Falk 2185). His painting, Sirius (the Dog Star, the brightest star in the heavens), seems an incongruous combination of very realistically-painted still-life objects including a wooden contraption resembling a human pelvis, and a bright red human leg to the knee, with a rope or snake wrapped around... Read full biography
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Keywords (45)
Art Method
- •Automatism, Automatic Writing, Drawing
- •Easel Painting
- •Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
- •Sculpture, Three Dimensional Forms, Sculptor
Art Media
- •Assemblage
- •Charcoal
- •Fresco Painting, Murals
- •Gouache
- •Ink
- •Mixed Media, Multi Media and/or Multli Styles
- •Oil Paint
- •Pen and Ink Drawing
- •Watercolor/Watercolour
- •Wire
- •Wood for carving, sculpture, and/or surface
Art Style
- •Abstraction, Abstract
- •Surrealism, Surrealist
Art Subject
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
- •Human Head Images, Portrait Heads, Faces
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •Mythology, Legends
- •Portraits, Portraiture
- •Regionalism, Local Scene
- •Snowscene, Winter Landscape
- •Symbolism, Iconography, Ceremonial
- •Underwater, Marine Imagery, Fish, Aquatic Life
Art Association
- •American Federation of Arts
- •New Haven Paint & Clay Club
Art School
- •Yale University School of Fine Art and Architecture, Student
Chronology
- •Early 20th Century Before 1950
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Added Description
- •Art Educator:Teaching, Scholarship, Workshops and/or Writing
- •Mural Specialty
- •Snowscene Specialty
- •WPA Artist, Federal Art Project, Murals and Easel Paintings
Notable Commercial Gallery Representation, Pre 21s
- •Grand Central Art Galleries, New York City
Exhibition of Art Association
- •National Academy of Design, New York
- •Paint and Clay Club-
Exhibition of Museum
- •Art Institute of Chicago
- •Carnegie Institute, International Exhibition
- •Corcoran Gallery and/or Art School, Washington DC
- •Museum of Modern Art, New York
- •Whitney Biennial Museum of American Art
Exhibition By An Art School
- •The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts