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1925 Oakland, California - 2009 Tucson, Arizona. Known for: Mod satire-genre, crowds-objects.
Robert H. Colescott, born in Oakland, California in 1925, was a painter of Afro-American life and social commentary in a semi-abstract, antic, cartoon, anecdotal style related in composition to the... Read full biography
Robert H. Colescott, born in Oakland, California in 1925, was a painter of Afro-American life and social commentary in a semi-abstract, antic, cartoon, anecdotal style related in composition to the early Cubism of French artists Marc Chagall and Fernand Leger, with whom he studied in Paris for a... Read full biography
Robert H. Colescott, born in Oakland, California in 1925, was a painter of Afro-American life and social commentary in a semi-abstract, antic, cartoon, anecdotal style related in composition to the early Cubism of French artists Marc Chagall and Fernand Leger, with whom he studied in Paris for a year. Of his figurative painting, it was written that his "garishly, powerful canvases lampooned racial and sexual stereotypes with rakish imagery, lurid colors, and almost tangible glee. People of all... Read full biography
Robert H. Colescott, born in Oakland, California in 1925, was a painter of Afro-American life and social commentary in a semi-abstract, antic, cartoon, anecdotal style related in composition to the early Cubism of French artists Marc Chagall and Fernand Leger, with whom he studied in Paris for a year. Of his figurative painting, it was written that his "garishly, powerful canvases lampooned racial and sexual stereotypes with rakish imagery, lurid colors, and almost tangible glee. People of all colors haunt Mr. Colescott's paintings, mostly as chimerical stereotypes that exchange attributes freely. Their mottled skin tones often suggest one race seeping through another. Their tumultuous interaction evoke a volatile mixture of suspicion,... Read full biography
Robert H. Colescott, born in Oakland, California in 1925, was a painter of Afro-American life and social commentary in a semi-abstract, antic, cartoon, anecdotal style related in composition to the early Cubism of French artists Marc Chagall and Fernand Leger, with whom he studied in Paris for a year. Of his figurative painting, it was written that his "garishly, powerful canvases lampooned racial and sexual stereotypes with rakish imagery, lurid colors, and almost tangible glee. People of all colors haunt Mr. Colescott's paintings, mostly as chimerical stereotypes that exchange attributes freely. Their mottled skin tones often suggest one race seeping through another. Their tumultuous interaction evoke a volatile mixture of suspicion, desire, pain and vitality. His slurred shapes, wobbly drawing and patchy brushwork imply that no truths can be... Read full biography
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- Focus on ChicagoNovember 2006EditorsARTnews
- The Most Erotic ArtworksJanuary 2004Berwick, CarlyARTnews
- ReviewsJuly 2003Editor, ARTnewsARTnews
- Review of ExhibitionsJune 2003Editors, Art in AmericaArt in America
- Lighter Side of Bay Area FigurativeOctober 2000Landauer, SusanAmerican Art Review
- The ARTNews 200August 1999Esterow, MiltonARTnews
- Taking the PlungeFebruary 1998Gardner, PaulARTnews
- An Impolitic QuestionSeptember 1997Schwartzman, AllanArt & Auction
- The 1997 Venice BiennaleSeptember 1997Vetrocq, MarciaArt in America
- One-Two PunchinelloJune 1997Eauclaire, SallyARTnews
- Best of the WestJune 1997Yennant, DonnaSouthwest Art
- ReviewsJanuary 1996Editors, Art NewsARTnews
- Art TALKJune 1995Newhall, EdithARTnews
- Learning from "Black Male"March 1995Nochlin, LindaArt in America