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'''Stuart Davis''' (December 7, 1892 – June 24, 1964), was an early American modernist painter. | [[File:Stuart_Davis.jpg|thumb|Stuart Davis (1940).]]'''Stuart Davis''' (December 7, 1892 – June 24, 1964), was an early American modernist painter. | ||
He was well known for his jazz-influenced, proto [[pop art | He was well known for his jazz-influenced, proto [[pop art]] paintings of the 1940s and 1950s, bold, brash, and colorful, as well as his ashcan pictures in the early years of the 20th century. | ||
== | == Stuart Davis quotations == | ||
=== Travel, form, space, and art === | |||
[[File:Hot_Still-Scape_for_Six_Colors_-_7th_Avenue_Style.jpg|150px|thumb|''Hot Still-Scape for Six Colors - 7th Avenue Style'' (1940).]] | |||
<blockquote>An artist who has traveled on a steam train, driven an automobile, or flown in an airplane doesn't feel the same way about form and space as one who has not.</blockquote> | |||
=== Color makes space === | |||
<blockquote>Always remember that in a painting color has a position, and a place, and it makes space.</blockquote> | |||
=== Practical hazards === | |||
<blockquote>In a painting, space doesn't involve practical hazards. You can't break your neck in a painting.</blockquote> | |||
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* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_Davis_(painter) Stuart Davis (painter)] @ Wikipedia | * [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_Davis_(painter) Stuart Davis (painter)] @ Wikipedia | ||
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Latest revision as of 06:17, 11 October 2022
Stuart Davis (December 7, 1892 – June 24, 1964), was an early American modernist painter.
He was well known for his jazz-influenced, proto pop art paintings of the 1940s and 1950s, bold, brash, and colorful, as well as his ashcan pictures in the early years of the 20th century.
Stuart Davis quotations
Travel, form, space, and art
An artist who has traveled on a steam train, driven an automobile, or flown in an airplane doesn't feel the same way about form and space as one who has not.
Color makes space
Always remember that in a painting color has a position, and a place, and it makes space.
Practical hazards
In a painting, space doesn't involve practical hazards. You can't break your neck in a painting.
Fiction cross reference
External links
- Stuart Davis (painter) @ Wikipedia