New York. 1922 - 2007
Color-field abstraction, sculptor, graphics
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Born 1937 Tokyo, Japan. Known for: Op art, abstract expressionist painting, earth art.
Born in Tokyo, Japan, Larry Poons became a prominent figure in Optical Art and in the Color-Field school of painting in New York. His paintings of the 1960s were characterized by dots of color placed... Read full biography
Born in Tokyo, Japan, Larry Poons became a prominent figure in Optical Art and in the Color-Field school of painting in New York. His paintings of the 1960s were characterized by dots of color placed according to a horizontal vertical and diagonal grid against a rich colored ground. The effect was... Read full biography
Born in Tokyo, Japan, Larry Poons became a prominent figure in Optical Art and in the Color-Field school of painting in New York. His paintings of the 1960s were characterized by dots of color placed according to a horizontal vertical and diagonal grid against a rich colored ground. The effect was a sense of movement--thus Optical Art. In 1965, he exhibited with the Op Artists, but the next year, his art became looser with small colored shapes floating in space. From that time, he changed to... Read full biography
Born in Tokyo, Japan, Larry Poons became a prominent figure in Optical Art and in the Color-Field school of painting in New York. His paintings of the 1960s were characterized by dots of color placed according to a horizontal vertical and diagonal grid against a rich colored ground. The effect was a sense of movement--thus Optical Art. In 1965, he exhibited with the Op Artists, but the next year, his art became looser with small colored shapes floating in space. From that time, he changed to expressionism and abstraction. Poons has also created Earth Art such as his "cracked earth landscapes". For these he uses layers of heavy impasto to create the effect of flowing lava and craggy plateaus. A musician before becoming a painter, Larry... Read full biography
Born in Tokyo, Japan, Larry Poons became a prominent figure in Optical Art and in the Color-Field school of painting in New York. His paintings of the 1960s were characterized by dots of color placed according to a horizontal vertical and diagonal grid against a rich colored ground. The effect was a sense of movement--thus Optical Art. In 1965, he exhibited with the Op Artists, but the next year, his art became looser with small colored shapes floating in space. From that time, he changed to expressionism and abstraction. Poons has also created Earth Art such as his "cracked earth landscapes". For these he uses layers of heavy impasto to create the effect of flowing lava and craggy plateaus. A musician before becoming a painter, Larry Poons studied at the New England Conservatory of Music from 1955 to 1957, and was much influenced by the experimental compositions of John C... Read full biography
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New York, Illinois / Germany. 1915 - 1994
Abstract expressionist painting, illustration
New York, Maine. 1924 - 2010
Minimalism, geometric, abstract expressionist painting
New Jersey. 1930 - 2020
Optical art illusion, collage, graphics
New York, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Indiana. 1907 - 2002
Stainless steel kinetic sculpture, some drawing
New York. 1912 - 1963
Biomorphic abstract, early surreal
New York, Massachusetts / Italy. 1913 - 2000
Canvas collage, surreal cityscape
District Of Columbia. 1920 - 1985
Neo-dada-pop, geometric-optical and mural painting
New York, California / Japan. 1904 - 1988
Abstract sculpture, mod mediums
New York. 1922 - 1997
Abstract expressionist painting, biomorph, geometric, surrealism
New York, Massachusetts, California / Germany. 1880 - 1966
Abstract expressionist painting, art teaching
New York / France. 1917 - 2004
Abstract expressionist painting
New York, Kansas, Missouri / France. 1923 - 2012
Abstract Expressionist painting
New York, Florida. 1927 - 2011
Crushed automobile motif sculpture
New York. 1936 - 2024
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New York, Maine. Born 1927
Post modernist figure and still-life painting, printmaking
New York, Minnesota. 1916 - 1992
Biomorphic to minimal painting, portrait
New York. 1929 - 2022
Whimsical pop art sculpture, public installations
New York, Vermont, Illinois / France. 1921 - 1999
Abstract expressionist painting- fantasy
New York. 1903 - 1974
Primitive painting-totemic non objective and realism
New York, Illinois. 1940 - 2007
Biomorphic imagery, abstract humor, collage, graphics
New York, California. 1939 - 2024
Site-specific geometric sculpure, monumental abstraction
New York, Missouri. 1906 - 1992
Modernist genre to abstraction, collage
New York, Connecticut. Born 1937
Geometric, minimal abstract painting
New York, California / Guatemala. 1903 - 1981
Minimal, pop word play, collage, mural
New York, Connecticut. Born 1953
Neo-conceptual abstract painting, printmaking, teaching
New York. 1930 - 1998
Geometric abstraction, images of receding highways, female portraits
New York. 1923 - 2002
Modernist pop figure, word image genre painting
New York / Italy. 1909 - 2008
Abstract expressionist and surreal painting
New York / Russian Federation. 1899 - 1988
Cubist monchromatic wood assemblage
Illinois, New York. 1930 - 2010
Expressionist abstract painting
Connecticut, North Carolina / Germany. 1888 - 1976
Serial geometric, non objective painting