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Kendall Shaw (born 1924) is a New Orleans-born painter whose career has spanned a number of art styles—ranging from abstract expressionism to pop art to minimalism to pattern and design to color field—with heightened emotion, pattern, shape, and vivid color predominant. Shaw’s work includes a series of 30 paintings based on the Torah of the Old Testament, as well as recent work with pure colors that he terms “Cajun Minimalism.” ==Life and career== Shaw was born in New Orleans and attended high school there. In 1943, he enlisted in the United States Navy, where he was a radioman on an SPB Dauntless dive-bomber while searching for German submarines off the mid-Atlantic coast. After the war, he attended the Georgia Institute of Technology and Tulane University, graduating from Tulane in 1949 with a B.S. in Chemistry. From 1950–1951, he took courses in art as well as organic chemistry at Louisiana State University, studying with visiting painter O. Louis Guglielmi. In 1951, Shaw moved to the New York City area as a chemical researcher for Stauffer Chemical. In New York, he continued his relationship with Guglielmi at The New School, also studying there with Stuart Davis and at the Brooklyn Museum with Ralston Crawford.〔Houston, David; Marticia Sawin, Bruce Russell, Kendall Shaw (2009). ''Kendall Shaw: Let there Be Light''. Ogden Museum of Southern Art, Inc.,University of New Orleans. pp. 3, 7, 15–16. ISBN 978-0-9772-5443-9〕〔Waller, Richard (1999) ''Kendall Shaw: A Life's Journey In Art''. Marsh Art Gallery, University of Richmond, p. 9〕 From Davis, he acquired the concepts of using color as music, with all shapes in a painting positive, no one shape dominating others.〔Houston,et al.(2009), p. 67〕 In 1953, he left Stauffer Chemical, determined to pursue his art, and went back to the Deep South where he tried his hand at oil prospecting. In 1957, Shaw returned to Tulane, where he taught and was graduated in 1959 with a Master In Fine Arts (MFA). During this period, Shaw was a teaching assistant to Ida Kohlmeyer and Kurt Kranz, also studying with George Rickey, and particularly with Mark Rothko, who was teaching at Tulane. From Rothko, Shaw acquired his use of color to convey feeling and emotion, and his view that a good painting should communicate the painter’s emotions directly to the observer, particularly through color.〔Houston et al.(2009), p. 16〕 Rothko taught him, as Shaw puts it, "that painting is a live animal, and the color is its blood."〔Gontar, Cybele (Winter 2013–14) "Darkling Plain: Mark Rothko in New Orleans,1957," Louisiana Cultural Vistas, pp.82–91 http://www.nxtbook.com/leh/lcvwinter13/lcvwinter13/index.php#/84〕 In 1961, Shaw became a permanent resident of New York City, working over teaching career of 25 years as an assistant professor at Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture; acting director of the Brooklyn Museum’s Art School, and instructing at Hunter College; Lehman College; the Fashion Institute of Technology and Parsons School for Design at the New School.〔Houston,et al.(2009), pp. 16–17〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kendall Shaw」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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