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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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- Heretics of the HeartlandFebruary 2006Duncan, MichaelArt in America
- New Look at SurrealismJune 2005Leigh, BobbieArt & Antiques
- Review of ExhibitionsOctober 1994AM editorsArt in America