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BAZIOTES William, born 1912 Pittsburg, PA - 1963 New York City. American painter. |
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| 1933-36 | Studied
at the National Academy of Design, New York. Painted in a naturalistic style. |
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| 1938-41 | Involved,
as a teacher, in the Works Progress Administration Federal Art Project.
Began abstract painting. |
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| 1942 | Took
part in an exhibition of leading Surrealists in New York. |
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| 1944 | First
solo-exhibition in Peggy Guggenheim's gallery entitled 'Art of this
Century'. |
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| 1948 | Together
with Rothko, Motherwell and Newman founded the school of painting
'Subjects of the Artist', which laid the cornerstone for Abstract
Expressionism in America. |
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| 1949-52 | Taught
at the Museum Art School in Brooklyn and at the People's Art Center of
the Museum of Modern Art, New York. |
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| from 1952 | Professorship
at Hunter College, New York. |
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| 1955/56 | Took
part in the exhibition 'The new American Painting' organized by the
Museum of Modern Art ... |
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| 1958/59 | ...
that was taken to Europe in 1958/59 |
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| 1959 | Participation in documenta 2 in Kassel. | |||
In his paintings, displaying Surrealist influences, Baziotes attempts to portray the diversity and ambiguity of the unconscious in an extremely sparse pictorial language. |
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