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Simon Gaon Figurative Paintings

American, b. 1943
Born and raised in New York City, Simon Gaon has spent a lifetime translating the pulse of his city onto canvas. His paintings are love songs to New York – passionate, explosive hymns to its bridges and lost souls, its streets and late-night wanderers, its parks, neon lights, diners, and derelicts. With brushstrokes that collide and claw at one another, his works seem less made than unleashed – spontaneous eruptions of energy that capture the restless rhythm of urban life. Deeply connected to the legacy of the New York Abstract Expressionists, Gaon transforms his canvases into arenas for raw emotion. His work is never picturesque; it is psychological, visceral – a statement about feeling rather than form. “It’s really the mood of the people on the street that I like,” Gaon says. “And it’s mood that counts most for me.” Yet for Gaon, mood is not vagueness – it is presence, tension, motion. His thick impastos and fractured planes of color dissolve boundaries and fuse figure with atmosphere, transforming the seen into the felt. Often painting outdoors – frequently at night – Gaon sets up his large canvases under streetlamps, fastening them to posts or resting them on garbage cans. Amid the noise of traffic and the chaos of the city, he channels its vitality directly into his brushwork. Policemen, passersby, panhandlers, and blaring radios become part of his environment, feeding the urgency of his gesture.
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Artist: Simon Gaon
Vibrant New York City Times Square, Figural Abstract Expressionist Oil Painting
Vibrant New York City Times Square, Figural Abstract Expressionist Oil Painting

Vibrant New York City Times Square, Figural Abstract Expressionist Oil Painting

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Simon Gaon (born 1943) is an American painter, Expressionist, and action painter. This is a thick impasto oil painting. with a lot of texture and color. Times Square with 42nd st in...

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"Cossack Massacre" Vintage Original Expressionist Painting

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Vintage historical painting of a Cossack raid by Simon Goan. Oil on board. Measuring: 13 by 11 inches overall, and 10 by 8 artwork alone.

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Vibrant New York City Times Square, Figural Abstract Expressionist Oil Painting
Vibrant New York City Times Square, Figural Abstract Expressionist Oil Painting

Vibrant New York City Times Square, Figural Abstract Expressionist Oil Painting

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Simon Gaon (born 1943) is an American painter, Expressionist, and action painter. This is a thick impasto oil painting. with a lot of texture and color. Times Square with 42nd st in Manhattan, New York city He is best known for his intense, tempestuous, action oriented paintings of the cityscape. He was also a co-founder of the Street Painters, a group of eight New York City artists who painted directly from the city life they observed on the streets of America's largest city. Born in 1943 in Manhattan, Gaon at an early age displayed creative talents. By age 14 he began painting while attending the Roosevelt School in Stamford, Connecticut. A key influence on him was painter Arthur Bressler (1927–1975) who was Gaon's teacher and mentor. Gaon graduated from the High School of Art and Design in New York City. In 1962, Gaon won the art studio award scholarship from the Art Students League which allowed him to study art on the European continent. In 1964, he studied in Academia 63 in Haarlem, the Netherlands, and furthered his European education with the Art Students League Merit Scholarship (1965) and the Edward G. McDowell traveling scholarship. He later stayed more than ten years in Europe, primarily in Paris, where his style evolved. The works of the Fauvist (Fauve) painters - Andre Derain, Maurice Vlaminck as well as Chaim Soutine, Oskar Kokoschka, Lovis Corinth, Gen Paul, and especially Vincent Van Gogh have all strongly influenced his work. His work is part of the figurative abstraction the was resurgent in NY in the second half of the 20th century. The influence of Robert Beauchamp, Lester Johnson, Jan Muller, Peter Saul, and Leon Golub as well as Rhino Horn artists...

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Vibrant New York City Times Square, Figural Abstract Expressionist Oil Painting

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Simon Gaon (born 1943) is an American painter, Expressionist, and action painter. This is a thick impasto oil painting. with a lot of texture and color. This is a nighttime scene of Midtown Manhattan, Times Square, 42nd st. New york city. He is best known for his intense, tempestuous, action oriented paintings of the cityscape. He was also a co-founder of the Street Painters, a group of eight New York City artists who painted directly from the city life they observed on the streets of America's largest city. Born in 1943 in Manhattan, Gaon at an early age displayed creative talents. By age 14 he began painting while attending the Roosevelt School in Stamford, Connecticut. A key influence on him was painter Arthur Bressler (1927–1975) who was Gaon's teacher and mentor. Gaon graduated from the High School of Art and Design in New York City. In 1962, Gaon won the art studio award scholarship from the Art Students League which allowed him to study art on the European continent. In 1964, he studied in Academia 63 in Haarlem, the Netherlands, and furthered his European education with the Art Students League Merit Scholarship (1965) and the Edward G. McDowell traveling scholarship. He later stayed more than ten years in Europe, primarily in Paris, where his style evolved. The works of the Fauvist (Fauve) painters - Andre Derain, Maurice Vlaminck as well as Chaim Soutine, Oskar Kokoschka, Lovis Corinth, Gen Paul, and especially Vincent Van Gogh have all strongly influenced his work. His work is part of the figurative abstraction the was resurgent in NY in the second half of the 20th century. The influence of Robert Beauchamp, Lester Johnson, Jan Muller, Peter Saul, and Leon Golub as well as Rhino Horn artists...

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