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Robert Deyber (born August 1955 in Greenwich, Connecticut) is an American artist most known for literal visual portrayals of cliches, euphemisms and idioms from the English and other languages. The San Francisco Examiner in 2009 described him as a "pop surrealist" whose style "has appeal for new as well as experienced collectors."〔(Andrew Samuels, "Pop surrealist Robert Deyber comes to town." San Francisco Examiner, July 16, 2009. Retrieved July 24, 2009 )〕 His work relates to that of Thomas Cole and Frederic Church of the Hudson River School, surrealists like Salvador Dalí and René Magritte, naive painter Henri Rousseau, the colorists Henri Matisse and Marc Chagall, and Andy Warhol. Deyber paints his own scenes from the prose that peppers the English lexicon. His works range from literal translations of fanciful sayings to kitschy depictions of everyday terminology.〔Coraggio, Jack, "Iconoclastic in Litchfield", Litchfield County Times 12/11/08〕 ==Early life== Robert grew up in Greenwich, Connecticut - his mother a talented portrait artist and fashion model who died when Deyber was sixteen, his father Robert Deyber Sr. a real estate broker and POW, survivor of the Bataan Death March. He began painting and drawing in his teens, and continued to develop a style that was original and surreal, drawing inspiration from the cultures that surrounded him as he lived in various parts of the country from New York City to San Francisco. Deyber eventually wound up in Perugia and Milan, Italy where he studied and observed the works of Giotto di Bondone and other Italian painters. His early work from the 1980s and 1990s involves work that he self-describes as neo-surrealism or surreal American mythology. While he continued to develop and show his work, he was an executive in the airline industry which allowed him to travel all over the world exposing himself to art in many museums. He continued for twenty years to exhibit his work in the Boston area. 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「Robert Deyber」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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