Fischl, 2006

Eric Fischl (born New York City, 1948) is an American painter. The City of New York Year 1948 ( MCMXLVIII) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the 1948 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Painting (pān'tīng in Art, is the practice of applying Color to a Surface (support base such as e

Life

Fischl was born in New York City and grew up on suburban Long Island; his family moved to Phoenix, Arizona in 1967. The City of New York South San Jose (cropjpg||thumb|A suburban development in San Jose California. Long Island is an island located in southeastern New York, USA, its western shores directly across from Manhattan, from which the island stretches Phoenix (ˈfiːˌnɪks O'odham Skikik, Yavapai Wasinka, Western Apache Fiinigis, Navajo Hoozdo, His own web site describes him as growing up "[a]gainst a backdrop of alcoholism and a country club culture obsessed with image over content. "^[1]

His art education began at Phoenix College, then a year at Arizona State University, then California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, California, where he earned his BFA in 1972. Phoenix College (often referred to as simply "PC") is a Community college located in Phoenix Arizona, USA. Arizona State University ( ASU) is the largest public Research university in the United States under a single administration with total student The California Institute of the Arts, commonly referred to as CalArts, is located in Valencia California, a suburb of Los Angeles California. Valencia is a Planned community located in Los Angeles County California in the northwestern corner of the Santa Clarita Valley, adjacent to In the USA the Bachelor of Fine Arts, usually abbreviated BFA, is the standard Undergraduate degree for students seeking a professional education in the He then moved to Chicago, taking a job as a guard at the Museum of Contemporary Art. Chicago (ʃɪˈkɑːgoʊ is the largest City by population in the state of Illinois and the American Midwest of the United States. ^[1]

His own website recounts, "It was in Chicago that Fischl was exposed to the non-mainstream art of the Hairy Who. The Chicago Imagists is the name of a group of representational artists associated with the School of the Art Institute of Chicago who exhibited at the Hyde Park 'The underbelly, carnie world of Ed Paschke and the hilarious sexual vulgarity of Jim Nutt were revelatory experiences for me. Edward Francis Paschke ( June 22, 1939 - November 25, 2004) was an American painter. Jim Nutt (born 1938) is an American Artist who was a member of the Chicago art movement known as the Chicago Imagists. '"^[1]

In 1974, he took a job teaching painting at Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, where he met painter April Gornik, with whom he moved back to New York City in 1978 and later married. The Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (NSCAD University is a post-secondary Art school located in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. ^[1]

Fischl worked and resided in New York City, but has recently moved to Sag Harbor, Long Island, New York with his wife, landscapist April Gornik, where they share a home and matching studios. Long Island is an island located in southeastern New York, USA, its western shores directly across from Manhattan, from which the island stretches ^[2] In addition, he is a senior critic at the New York Academy of Art. The New York Academy of Art or Graduate School of Figurative Art is the only accredited school of its kind in the world

Work

Bad boy, oil on linen, 66 inches x 96 inches by Eric Fischl

Fischl has embraced the description of himself as a painter of the suburbs, not generally considered appropriate subject matter prior to his generation. ^[1] Some of Fischl's earlier works have a theme of adolescent sexuality and voyeurism, such as Sleepwalker (1979) which depicts an adolescent boy masturbating into a children's pool. See also Human sexuality, Adolescence Adolescent sexuality refers to sexual feelings behavior and development in adolescents and is a stage of human Voyeurism is the sexual interest in spying on people engaged in intimate behaviors such as undressing sexual activity or urinating [1] Bad Boy (1981) and Birthday Boy (1983) both depict young boys looking at older women shown in provocative poses on a bed. In Bad Boy, the subject is surreptitiously slipping his hand into a purse. In Birthday Boy, the child is depicted naked on the bed.

In response to 9/11, Fischl debuted his work Tumbling Woman at Rockefeller Center in New York, creating controversy since it reminded the viewers of people falling from the World Trade Center. Rockefeller Center is a complex of 19 commercial buildings covering 22 acres between 48th and 51st streets in New York City. The World Trade Center in New York City, United States (sometimes informally the WTC or Twin Towers) was a complex of seven buildings in Lower Manhattan When asked about the controversy in an interview, Fischl still felt "confused and hurt by [it]. It was an absolutely sincere attempt to put feelings into form and to share them, and it was met with such anger and anxiety in a way that used to be reserved for abstract sculpture, really. " Fischl felt people were mourning the building more than the people since there were so few bodies but such a high body count, which he felt was wrong. ^[3]

In 2002, Fischl collaborated with the Museum Haus Esters in Krefeld, Germany. History The origins of the town were in Roman times when the legions founded the military camp of Gelduba (today the borough of Gellep Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany ( ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant is a Country in Central Europe. Haus Esters is a 1928 home, designed by Mies van der Rohe in 1928 to be a private home. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (ˈlʊdvɪç miːs faːn dɛʀ ˈʀoːɐ born Maria Ludwig Michael Mies ( March 27, 1886 &ndash August 17, 1969 It now houses changing exhibitions. Fischl refurnished it as a home (though not particularly in Bauhaus style, and hired models who, for several days, pretended to be a couple who lived there. ("House of Building" or "Building School" is the common term for the, a school in Germany that combined crafts and the fine arts and was famous He took 2,000 photographs, which he reworked digitally and used as the basis for a series of paintings, ^[4] one of which, the monumental Krefeld Project, Bedroom #6 (Surviving the Fall Meant Using You for Handholds) (2004) was purchased by Paul Allen featured in the 2006 Double Take Exhibit at Experience Music Project, where it was juxtaposed with a much smaller Degas pastel. Paul Gardner Allen (born January 21 1953 is an American computer programmer and entrepreneur who co-founded Microsoft with Bill Gates. ^[5] This is by no means the first time Fischl has been compared to Degas. Twenty years earlier, reviewing a show of 28 Fischl paintings at New York's Whitney Museum, John Russell wrote in the New York Times, "[Degas] sets up a charged situation with his incomparable subtlety of insight and characterization, and then he goes away and leaves us to figure it out as best we can. The Whitney Museum of American Art, often referred to simply as "the Whitney" harbors one of the most important collections of 20th century American art That is the tactic of Fischl, too, though the society with which he deals has an unstructured brutality and a violence never far from release that are very different from the nicely calibrated cruelties that Degas recorded. "^[6]

Notes

1. ^ ^{a b c d e} Biography at EricFischl. com, accessed 8 September 2006.
2. ^ Phyllis Tuchman (January 17, 2008), A In the Studio: Eric Fischl, ARTINFO, <http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/26389/in-the-studio-eric-fischl/>. Retrieved on 17 April 2008 
3. ^ Robert Ayers (February 14, 2006), Eric Fischl, ARTINFO, <http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/11805/eric-fischl/>. Retrieved on 17 April 2008 
4. ^ Mary Boone Gallery - Eric Fischl's Krefeld Project: Studies, accessed 8 September 2006.
5. ^ Christopher Frizzelle, Nightstand: Body Issues, [[The Stranger (newspaper)|]], August 31 - September 6, 2006. Accessed online 8 September 2006.
6. ^ John Russell, Art at the Whitney, 28 Eric Fischl paintings, New York Times, February 21, 1986. Accessed online 8 September 2006.

References

• Fischl biography at EricFischl. com

External links

• EricFischl.com, official site
• Fischl at World Wide Arts Resources
• Eric Fischl - American Contemporary Realist