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![Portrait of Lucas Samaras: Untitled (Head) [Self-Portrait], 1959](/photos3/2014/SKN20130201_75647/672.jpg)
1936 Kastoria, Macedonia, Greece - 2024 New York City. Known for: Multi-media, modernist figure, collage-assemblage, happenings.
Working in mulit-medias and multi modernist styles, Lucas Samaras is both artist and theoretician who regards his life as an art object. In his work, he has combined Performance Art, and many forms... Read full biography
Working in mulit-medias and multi modernist styles, Lucas Samaras is both artist and theoretician who regards his life as an art object. In his work, he has combined Performance Art, and many forms of abstraction including post-Dadaism, post-Surrealism, and post-Abstract Expressionism. In 1959,... Read full biography
Working in mulit-medias and multi modernist styles, Lucas Samaras is both artist and theoretician who regards his life as an art object. In his work, he has combined Performance Art, and many forms of abstraction including post-Dadaism, post-Surrealism, and post-Abstract Expressionism. In 1959, Samaras took part in the earliest "Happenings" led by Allan Kaprow, in which the audience participated with the artist in disconnected-seeming events. Kaprow described a "Happening" as an "assemblage of... Read full biography
Working in mulit-medias and multi modernist styles, Lucas Samaras is both artist and theoretician who regards his life as an art object. In his work, he has combined Performance Art, and many forms of abstraction including post-Dadaism, post-Surrealism, and post-Abstract Expressionism. In 1959, Samaras took part in the earliest "Happenings" led by Allan Kaprow, in which the audience participated with the artist in disconnected-seeming events. Kaprow described a "Happening" as an "assemblage of events" (Atkins 103). Samaras has created assemblage figures and textured boxes from pins, nails, screws, cloth and plaster as well as erotic-seeming forms from wood, pins and rope. Of these objects Samaras has said that he felt he could rescue... Read full biography
Working in mulit-medias and multi modernist styles, Lucas Samaras is both artist and theoretician who regards his life as an art object. In his work, he has combined Performance Art, and many forms of abstraction including post-Dadaism, post-Surrealism, and post-Abstract Expressionism. In 1959, Samaras took part in the earliest "Happenings" led by Allan Kaprow, in which the audience participated with the artist in disconnected-seeming events. Kaprow described a "Happening" as an "assemblage of events" (Atkins 103). Samaras has created assemblage figures and textured boxes from pins, nails, screws, cloth and plaster as well as erotic-seeming forms from wood, pins and rope. Of these objects Samaras has said that he felt he could rescue ruined and useless things and give them dignity. He often inserts photos of himself, and as his career has progressed. he has... Read full biography
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Art Method
- •Collage and/or Decoupage
- •Easel Painting
- •Graphic Design, Printmaking, Lithography, Etching, Woodblocks
- •Moving Scenic Panorama Painting, 3-D Diorama
- •Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
- •Sculpture, Three Dimensional Forms, Sculptor
Art Media
- •Acrylic Paint
- •Assemblage
- •Bronze
- •Chalk
- •Colored Pencil
- •Crayon, Crayola Drawing
- •Fiber Art Design: Fabric, Crochet, Quilting, Knitting, Weaving
- •Gouache
- •Ink
- •Metal, Metalwork, Metal Plates, Metal Point
- •Mixed Media, Multi Media and/or Multli Styles
- •Neon Light, Projected Light, Illumination
- •Oil Paint
- •Painting on Glass, Glass Design, Studio Glass Art
- •Pastel Painting/Drawing
- •Pen and Ink Drawing
- •Pencil, Graphite Drawing
- •Plaster
- •Plastics
- •Steel, Stainless Steel
- •Watercolor/Watercolour
- •Wire
- •Wood for carving, sculpture, and/or surface
Art Style
Art Subject
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Human Head Images, Portrait Heads, Faces
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •Nude Figure, Nudity
- •Panoramic View and/or Large Scale Panoramic Artwork
- •Portraits, Portraiture
- •Self-Portrait
- •Still Life
Art School
- •Columbia University Art Department, Student
Chronology
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Added Description
- •Figure Specialty
- •Printmaking Specialty
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