Jim Dine is a pop artist that seems to get stuck on a certain form and then make iterations of it until he tires of that object and moves on to the next. He was a big part of the pop culture movement and his work was included in a curated to be part of the show New Painting of Common Objects with artists such as Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein. One of my favorite stories about him is that his work was being shown in London in 1966 - in the Fraser Gallery - and the police raided the place, seized 20 pieces of his work in the name of the Obscene Publications Act of 1959, and then fined Frasers 20 guineas - because the work was just indecent, but not obscene. LOL! I couldn't find much of his work that showed the human form. The closest I saw were his bathrobe series. I guess that's a really interesting way to draw the figure- disembodied.
Self Portrait, 1996 George Tooker was talented from a young age and was privileged enough to be able to start taking art lessons from a famous artist, Malcolm Fraser, at the age of 7. He was born on Long Island in 1920. Twenty two years later he had graduated from Harvard with a graduate degree in English literature. His studies into the renaissance and medieval painting seems to have deeply influenced his artwork. He served for a short period of time in the Marines and when he came home after an injury, he delved back into the world of art, meeting many people who would be influential in the path of the rest of his life. Particularly, Jared and Margaret French and Paul Cadmus who mentored him and helped him to find his style that he was known for, which can be termed as magic realism (he never really liked this term). He had other friends who encouraged him to travel. He spent 6 months traveling Europe, visiting museums, historical sites, and churches. Once again, these frie...
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