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20. Feb. 2020 · Jack Youngerman, a French-trained American artist whose profuse invention of abstract shapes in two and three dimensions opened up a new aesthetic vocabulary in the period immediately after...
24. Feb. 2020 · Jack Youngerman. Untitled . 1953 Youngerman and Kelly discovered abstraction in France, in the art and artists that surrounded them and through a series of experiments with how to compose pictures through found images and chance operations.
Jack Youngerman is an American artist known for his abstract paintings of simplified organic forms. Influenced by contemporaries such as Ellsworth Kelly as well as the cut-outs of Henri Matisse, Youngerman explores figure-and-ground relationships through juxtaposing colored shapes.
- American
Born in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1926, Jack Youngerman studied at the Universities of North Carolina and Missouri. In 1947–48 he studied painting at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where he continued to live and paint until 1956. He admired the work of Henri Matisse and the purity and discipline of Piet Mondrian's paintings.
- March 25, 1926
- February 19, 2020
AN INTERVIEW WITH JACK YOUNGERMAN. By Barbara Rose. Q: Were your early paintings, in Paris after the war, geometric? A: No, not really. When I started painting, I hadn’t seen anything that was happening in America. I’d been to the Modern Museum once and that was all.
24. Feb. 2020 · Jack Youngerman, the pioneering post-war abstractionist, has died at 93. According to The New York Times, who first reported the news, the artist’s death was a result of complications...
