Artist of the Week: Stuart Davis
I have always liked hot music. There's something
wrong with any American who doesn't. But I never realized that it was
influencing my work until one day I put on a favorite record and
listened to it while I was looking at a painting I had just finished.
Then I got a funny feeling. If I looked, or if I listened, there was no
shifting of attention. It seemed to amount to the same thing--like
twins, a kinship. After that, for a long time, I played records while I
painted"- Stuart Davis
Considered a forefather of the Pop Art
movement, Stuart Davis translated the visual imagery of New York City
and the jazz music of the mid-20th Century into iconographic abstract
paintings of squiggly lines and flashy colors. The career of Stuart
Davis has encompassed the entire span of modern art in the United
States. Stuart Davis was an American
cubist
painter whose colorful compositions, with their internal logic and
structure, often camouflaged the American flavor of his themes.
As a boy in Philadelphia, Stuart Davis was surrounded by painters. Stuart’s father was art editor with the Philadelphia Press and among his employees was the young artists John Sloan, William Glackens, Everett Shinn and George Luks. Helen Stuart Foulke, Stuart’s mother, was a prominent sculptor who exhibited at the annual exhibitions of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. In the company of his parents and their famous artist friends, young Stuart Davis grew up surrounded by art. The Davis family moved to East Orange, New Jersey at the same time as the Philadelphia artist, Robert Henri, opened his school in New York City, and Stuart Davis left high school to attend it. Like other Henri students Stuart Davis supported himself by doing illustrations for Harper's Weekly. Stuart Davis exhibited watercolors in the famous Armory show of 1913. That show exposed Stuart Davis to the revolutionary paintings of modern Europe. read more
Considered a forefather of the Pop Art
movement, Stuart Davis translated the visual imagery of New York City
and the jazz music of the mid-20th Century into iconographic abstract
paintings of squiggly lines and flashy colors. The career of Stuart
Davis has encompassed the entire span of modern art in the United
States. Stuart Davis was an American
cubist
painter whose colorful compositions, with their internal logic and
structure, often camouflaged the American flavor of his themes.
As a boy in Philadelphia, Stuart Davis was surrounded by painters. Stuart’s father was art editor with the Philadelphia Press and among his employees was the young artists John Sloan, William Glackens, Everett Shinn and George Luks. Helen Stuart Foulke, Stuart’s mother, was a prominent sculptor who exhibited at the annual exhibitions of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. In the company of his parents and their famous artist friends, young Stuart Davis grew up surrounded by art. The Davis family moved to East Orange, New Jersey at the same time as the Philadelphia artist, Robert Henri, opened his school in New York City, and Stuart Davis left high school to attend it. Like other Henri students Stuart Davis supported himself by doing illustrations for Harper's Weekly. Stuart Davis exhibited watercolors in the famous Armory show of 1913. That show exposed Stuart Davis to the revolutionary paintings of modern Europe. read more
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