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1919 Milwaukee, Wisconsin - 2006 Cooksville, Wisconsin. Known for: Paintings of surreal fanciful images, illustration.
Part of the Wisconsin Surrealist movement in the 1930s and 40s, John Wilde was a Surrealist painter with focus on life and death through grotesque, doll-like people in "otherworldly situations". Many... Read full biography
Part of the Wisconsin Surrealist movement in the 1930s and 40s, John Wilde was a Surrealist painter with focus on life and death through grotesque, doll-like people in "otherworldly situations". Many of his paintings have old bones, mutated female creatures, and dream-like landscapes, and... Read full biography
Part of the Wisconsin Surrealist movement in the 1930s and 40s, John Wilde was a Surrealist painter with focus on life and death through grotesque, doll-like people in "otherworldly situations". Many of his paintings have old bones, mutated female creatures, and dream-like landscapes, and frequently he painted himself into his work. He also did detailed, colorful and eerily glowing still lifes. His association with Surrealism began when he was a student at the University of Wisconsin and became... Read full biography
Part of the Wisconsin Surrealist movement in the 1930s and 40s, John Wilde was a Surrealist painter with focus on life and death through grotesque, doll-like people in "otherworldly situations". Many of his paintings have old bones, mutated female creatures, and dream-like landscapes, and frequently he painted himself into his work. He also did detailed, colorful and eerily glowing still lifes. His association with Surrealism began when he was a student at the University of Wisconsin and became a friend of Marshall Glasier, that Wisconsin Surrealist leader and his art teacher. He joined Glasier at salons at his home where artists gathered to discuss European modernism and other avant-garde topics. Wilde's painting was also linked to Magic... Read full biography
Part of the Wisconsin Surrealist movement in the 1930s and 40s, John Wilde was a Surrealist painter with focus on life and death through grotesque, doll-like people in "otherworldly situations". Many of his paintings have old bones, mutated female creatures, and dream-like landscapes, and frequently he painted himself into his work. He also did detailed, colorful and eerily glowing still lifes. His association with Surrealism began when he was a student at the University of Wisconsin and became a friend of Marshall Glasier, that Wisconsin Surrealist leader and his art teacher. He joined Glasier at salons at his home where artists gathered to discuss European modernism and other avant-garde topics. Wilde's painting was also linked to Magic Realism and its New York exponents Paul Cadmus and George Tooker. Wilde had a six-decade career as... Read full biography
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Keywords (26)
Art Method
- •Easel Painting
- •Illustration, Illustrator
Art Media
Art Style
- •Magic Realism
- •Surrealism, Surrealist
- •Trompe l'oeil
Art Subject
- •Animals, Mammals
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
- •Nude Figure, Nudity
- •Still Life
Chronology
- •Early 20th Century Before 1950
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Added Description
- •Art Educator:Teaching, Scholarship, Workshops and/or Writing
- •Figure Specialty
Exhibition of Art Association
- •National Academy of Design, New York
Exhibition of Museum
- •Art Institute of Chicago
- •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