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Norman BluhmUntitled1974
1974
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NORMAN BLUHM
Untitled, 1974
Acrylic and pastel on paper
22 x 90 inches
55.9 x 228.6 cm
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Beginning in the 1970s, and after more than two decades of experimentation and accomplishment, Norman Bluhm arrived at an idiom of gestural abstract painting. His paintings are rich with the movement of their making, but which also show a real sophistication of structure. These works by Norman Bluhm encompass his time in the town of Millbrook in upstate New York, arriving at more sinuous and more sensuous ways of constructing space. Fluid forms with sharp contours burst with improvisation and delicately accented whips and splatters of paint. Bluhm’s paintings from the 70s marked a watershed in his drive to bring a romanticism of the body into Abstract Expressionism.
Norman Bluhm (b. 1920, Chicago, IL) died in 1999 at the age of 78 in East Wallingford, VT.
- Creator:Norman Bluhm (1921-1999, American)
- Creation Year:1974
- Dimensions:Height: 22 in (55.88 cm)Width: 90 in (228.6 cm)
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- Gallery Location:New York, NY
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Norman Bluhm
Norman Bluhm (1921-1999) was an American Abstract Expressionist celebrated for creating paintings with bold, energetic brushwork and colorful, voluptuous forms. Born in Chicago, IL, Bluhm studied architecture with Mies van der Rohe. In 1948, after serving as a fighter pilot in World War II, Bluhm moved to Paris, where he studied at the Ecoled des Beaux-Arts and associated with Joan Mitchell, Sam Francis and Alberto Giacometti. After moving to New York in 1956, he joined a circle of action painters including Franz Kline, Robert Motherwell, Ad Reinhardt, Willem de Kooning and showed at the Leo Castelli Gallery. Prior to and after his studies, Bluhm was a member of the Air Force and served in World War II. After World War II, he lived in Paris with other hopeful American writers and artists of the expatriate scene. There he developed an interest in nude painting. In 1956 he moved to New York. The Cedar Tavern was a favorite gathering place where he convened with other painters and writers, such as Frank O'Hara, Franz Kline, William de Kooning, and Jackson Pollock. Among the work of this noted group were the twenty-six Bluhm-O'Hara spontaneous poem paintings, composed in Bluhm's studio atop the old Tiffany Glass Building in 1960. The Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C. exhibited Bluhm's work in his first museum show in 1969. During the 1960s and 1970s, his art created an atmosphere of violence, with a large paint-soaked brush, often using blues, pinks, purples and greens. His work which featured webs of jagged marks, cascading drips and violent splatters of paint, increasingly took on the energy and scale of abstract expressionism. Later his violent outlook changed, as did his style. He has exhibited his works throughout the United States and Europe.
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