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Betsy Podlach
Still Life Oil Painting Betsy Podlach American Post Feminist Modernist Art

1996

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Betsy Podlach (American, born 1964.) Still life with Tin Cup, 1996 17.5 X 16.5 inches. Framed it measures 18.25 X 17.25 Betsy Podlach graduated from Harvard, cum laude, (she studied at Harvard with Alfred Decreido and William Reimann as well as Carlos Fuentes continuing her studies at the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting, and Sculpture, Ms. Podlach was awarded an art fellowship and residency at The International School of Art in Umbria, Italy. Betsy Podlach is an American painter who considers the Italian Venetians and the american abstract expressionist painters her mentors. The two painters she is most inspired by are Titian and Jackson Pollock, Both use the picture plane and abstraction and space, light, movement and form to communicate a physicality built entirely on the principals of painting, in the “classical” sense of a flat plane and lines, color, shape, space and light applied to that flat surface to create magic – light, space, form, emotion, force, movement, the physical and the spiritual. She describes her work as a figurative version of abstract expressionism. She was influenced by many of the abstract expressionists from the NY school in the 1950s, she studied with Nicolas Carone and Mercedes Matte as well as others influenced by Hans Hoffman. She spent many years painting in Italy. She went back and forth between the figure and “pure” abstraction, the landscape and “pure” abstraction. Nicholas Carone did so, in a way that incorporated the essence in a contemporary way of the great Italian masters. Willem De Kooning did this with his landscapes and his women. Jackson Pollock did this with his heads, animals and his more “pure” symphonic landscape abstractions. Other artists who were her biggest influences are Pierre Bonnard, Henri Matisse, Paul Cezanne, Georges Rouault and Claude Monet. For eight years Betsy lived and painted in Paris, France. She spent time in Munich, Germany and was also influenced by German painters from the early 1900s, pre WWI, the Blue Rider group, including Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc. Influenced by contemporary life, fashion, design, nature, animals, the news, the feelings, the experiences, the goings on, as well as contemporary art are all amongst the influences on her art. There is a Fauvist color sensibility to her art. Her art has been described as Post Feminist; “I grew up around beautiful fabrics, thanks to my mother who was an avid seamstress, and am intrigued by the high fashion designers like Christian Dior and Chanel, whom she became familiar with when she lived in Paris. I love to add hints of their fine fabrics and fashions in my paintings to enhance the stories my work suggests.” Podlach’s work is in public and private collections all over the world, including that the Italian fashion design house Marni, who beyond purchasing a painting, also used her images in some of their runway designs for Spring 2019, Pfizer Inc, and NYU, and Princess Donatella Borghese of Rome, Italy, as well as used for the book covers of published poetry and psychology books. Her work being consistently represented in the USA and Europe for the past thirty years
  • Creator:
    Betsy Podlach (1964, American)
  • Creation Year:
    1996
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 18.25 in (46.36 cm)Width: 17.25 in (43.82 cm)
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  • Gallery Location:
    Surfside, FL
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU38211873152

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