Friday, September 14, 2001–Friday, November 30, 2001
1916 born in Saint-Paul, Minnesota, USA. -
1992 died in New York, New York, USA.
At the end of studying art Richard Pousette-Dart begins creating
sculptures and writing notebooks with poems, notes, drawings and little
oil paintings. He is very influenced by eastern philosophy, religions and
archaic forms.
In the beginning of the 1940s the artist is one of the founders of the
,,New York School", a group of artists working abstract and which he
describes as unindependant from each other. For him this art movement
means a possibility to move away from reality and to integrate
transcendentalism and mysticism in his work. His intention is to transform
the energy from the universe to the surface of the canvas, sometimes
with surrealistic techniques. In this time Pousette-Dart is also using
allegories, metaphers and symbols reflecting his distaste against the
war.
In the 1950s the artist develops many paintings in ,,white" with
biomorphical forms and calligraphical fields. In the beginning of 1960 he
specializes in strong colors and in the 70s and 80s he experiments with
various thickness of the coloration and different dominant geometric
forms.