Owh! In San Paõ
1951
Abstract
Oil on Canvas
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
From Davis’s later work, ‘Owh! In San Paõ’ moves away from the sensory overload towards a more pared-down, punch, geometric aesthetic. It edges closer to pure abstraction with a lively mix of graphic forms, text, and high-impact colour creating seemingly disembodied words and indistinct shapes.
Stuart Davis
Modern Art, American Modernism
Born: 7 December 1892, Pennsylvania, USA
Nationality: American
Died: 24 June 1964, New York, USA
Davis was an early modernist painter. He is known for his jazz-influenced proto-pop art paintings of the 1940s and 1950s. Davis, already a famous painter, felt the negative effects of the Great Depression in the 1930s and was among the first artists to apply for the Federal Arts Project
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