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Marcus Reichert (born June 19, 1948) is an American painter, poet, author, photographer, and film writer/director. He was given his first exhibition of paintings at the age of twenty-one at the legendary Gotham Book Mart and Art Gallery, New York,〔 home to the Surrealists during WWII. In 1990, he was honored with a retrospective organised by the Hatton Gallery of the University of Newcastle upon Tyne which toured in various forms to Glasgow, London, Paris, and the United States. His Crucifixion paintings have been described by Richard Harries, the 41st Bishop of Oxford, as being among the most disturbing painted in the 20th Century,〔 while the American critic Donald Kuspit has written that both Picasso's and Bacon's pale in comparison.〔 The first ''neo-noir'', Reichert's film ''Union City'', which premiered at the 1980 Cannes Film Festival, was hailed by Lawrence O'Toole, film critic for ''Time'' magazine, as "an unqualified masterpiece."〔 His film works are held in the Archive of the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Marcus Reichert is the author of three novels, including the cult classics ''Verdon Angster'' and ''Hoboken'', and his writing is featured on the internet journals 3:AM Magazine and ''Newtopia Magazine''. Published collections of his poems include "Lost Lake: Early Poems", "Confessions", "From the Balcony", and "The Defeated, The Exalted". "Marcus Reichert: The Human Edifice" by Mel Gooding, with 100 photographs by the artist in colour, is published by Artmedia Press, London and "Portrait of the Artist's Wife: Photographs 1966-2011" by Marcus Reichert is published by Ziggurat Books International, London. ==Painting== Marcus Reichert is an artist whose vision has never been deterred by social standards. Reichert started painting seriously at age 10, influenced by the work of Eduard von Gebhardt (1838-1925) – a German painter who preferred painting patients in local insane asylums. When Reichert wasn’t redefining von Gebhardt’s paintings in his family’s basement, he was out in the woods reading about Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890). From these two artists, Reichert formed the conclusion that, “… to be a painter one had to go beyond what was considered rational. One had to be oblivious to the distractions that others found meaningful” (Art Without Art, 13). Reichert was born in 1948 in Bayshore, Long Island, grew up in rural Pennsylvania, and spent summers with his grandmother in Levittown, New Jersey. In the early 1960s, Reichert toured Paris and the South of France, where he currently resides and works. During the Vietnam War, Reichert attended the Rhode Island School of Design in the Independent Study program. He had grown up painting in the period during abstract expressionism, but was seeking something more literal. There seemed to be an element of truthfulness in the obscurity of paintings by artists such as Alberto Giacometti and Francis Bacon, and Reichert embarked to find his own path in this trajectory of contemporary painting. Working out of New York and Bridgehampton in the 1970s, Reichert lived among painters Willem de Kooning, Larry Rivers, and Jack Youngerman. According to Reichert, “My determination was to take gestural painting into a new area of figuration which would be both spiritual and poetic, and without social or political connotations.” Reichert exhibited his paintings for the first time when he was twenty-one at the Gotham Book Mart and Art Gallery in New York (1970). Since then, he has had several museum and gallery exhibitions in the United States and Europe. In that time, Reichert has also published three novels and created the film, “Union City,” which premiered at the 1980 Cannes Film Festival and is now held in the archive of the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Although he has also worked extensively in poetry, prose, and photography, he considers himself primarily a painter. :- Adam Adelson, Director, Adelson Galleries Boston 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「Marcus Reichert」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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