William Baziotes (1912–1963) was an American painter influenced by Surrealism and was a contributor to Abstract Expressionism. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Surrealism is a cultural movement that began in the early-1920s and is best known for the visual artworks and writings of the group members Abstract expressionism was an American post– World War II Art movement.
Born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to Greek parents, Baziotes began his formal art training in 1933 at the National Academy of Design in New York City. The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania ( often colloquially referred to as PA (its abbreviation by natives and Northeasterners is a state located in the Northeastern The National Academy of Design, in New York City, now called simply The National Academy is an honorary association of American Artists with a Museum The City of New York He studied with Charles Curran, Ivan Olinsky, Gifford Beal, and Leon Kroll. Charles Courtney Curran (1861 &ndash 1942 was an American painter. He was employed by the Federal Art Project in the late 1930s. The Federal Art Project (FAP was the Visual arts arm of the Great Depression -era New Deal WPA Federal One program in the In the 1940s he became friends with many artists in the emerging Abstract Expressionist group. Abstract expressionism was an American post– World War II Art movement. Although he shared the groups' interest in primitive art and automatism, his work was more in line with European surrealism Later in his career he taught extensively. Automatism has taken on many forms the Automatic writing and drawing initially (and still to this day practiced by surrealists can be compared to similar or perhaps Surrealism is a cultural movement that began in the early-1920s and is best known for the visual artworks and writings of the group members He became a founding member of the school on Eighth Street in 1948. He also taught at the Brooklyn Museum Art School, People's Art Center, the Museum of Modern Art, and at the City University of New York,Hunter College in Manhattan during the last ten years of his life. The Brooklyn Museum, located at 200 Eastern Parkway, in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, is the second-largest Art museum in The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, USA, on 53rd Street between Fifth Hunter College High School|Hunter College Elementary School Hunter College of the City University of New York is a senior college of the City University of New York
Baziotes and his wife Ethel lived in the Morningside Heights area of northern Manhattan until his death from cancer in 1963.
Some of his famous works are Aquatic, Dusk, and The Room, all of which are in the Guggenheim Museum in New York. This article refers to the Guggenheim's landmark New York museum Other famous works by Baziotes can be seen at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the MoMA, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.
References
- Marika Herskovic, American Abstract Expressionism of the 1950s An Illustrated Survey, (New York School Press, 2003. ) ISBN 0-9677994-1-4
- Marika Herskovic, New York School Abstract Expressionists Artists Choice by Artists, (New York School Press, 2000. ) ISBN 0-9677994-
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