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Herbert Gentry : ウィキペディア英語版 | Herbert Gentry
Herbert Alexander Gentry, popularly known as Herb Gentry (July 17, 1919–September 8, 2003), was an African-American Expressionist painter who lived and worked in Paris, France (1946–70; 1976–80), Copenhagen, Denmark (1958–63), in the Swedish cities of Gothenburg (1963–65), Stockholm (1965–76; 2001–03), and Malmö (1980–2001), and in New York City (1970–2000) as a permanent resident of the Hotel Chelsea. ==The art of Herbert Gentry==
Gentry's paintings juxtapose faces and masks, shifting orientations of figures and heads—human and animal—into profiles, to the left, to the right, above and below. The direction of the head, as face or profile, leading right or left, or facing front, is played against the relative scale of each head, its position on the canvas, and in relationship to the others. The faces evoke subtle expressions and moods. Rather than using images to depict a concrete story, Gentry releases his experiences upon the canvas. The act of spontaneous painting uses consciousness itself, and each painting reveals the self. When asked about direct influences, he avoids imposing external meanings upon primary experience, describing instead his creative process.〔Delany, B. K. (2003), "Post-World War II Expatriate Painters: The Question of a Black Aesthetic". New York: Teachers College, Columbia University. Doctoral dissertation.〕 Philosophically near the jazz musician, Gentry breathes rhythms into a personally inflected expressionism. "The staccato beat of jazz is fused with biomorphic form in paintings which never become totally abstract, but hold the picture plane in the Cubist tradition" wrote art historian Peter Selz (1994) about Gentry's work.〔Selz, Peter, "Herbert Gentry" essay for gallery exhibition, 1994. Los Angeles, California: Alitash Kebede Gallery. Exhibition brochure.〕 Gentry creates a foil for feelings and for emotion, and orchestrates his subjective figuration in dialogue with the immediacy of the painted gesture. Romare Bearden (1981) wrote that Gentry's "method is conceptual rather than realistic. One senses in the chromatic emotionalism, and in the biomorphic forms of the figures that often appear in Gentry's paintings, the strong pull of the unconscious."〔Studio Museum in Harlem (1982). ''An Ocean Apart: African American Artists Abroad''. New York: Studio Museum in Harlem, October 8, 1982-January 9, 1983.〕
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