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Frank Piatek
Frank Piatek (born 1944) is an American artist, known for abstract, illusionistic paintings of tubular forms and three-dimensional works exploring spirituality, cultural memory and the creative process.Schulze, Franz. "Artists the Critics Are Watching: Frank Piatek, Twenty Years of Monumental Tubes," ''ARTnews'', May 1981.Yood, James. "Frank Piatek," ''New Art Examiner'', February 1985.Artner, Alan G. "Piatek expanding creative boundaries," ''Chicago Tribune'', October 29, 1998.Depree Art Center. ''Searching for the Spiritual'' (catalogue), Holland, MI: Depree Art Center, Hope College, 1997, p. 31. Piatek emerged in the mid-1960s, among a group of Chicago artists exploring various types of organic abstraction that shared qualities with the Chicago Imagists;Gedo, Mary Mathews. "Abstraction as Metaphor: The Evocative Imagery of William Conger, Richard Loving, Frank Piatek, Miyoko Ito", ''Arts Magazine'', p. 112–117, 1982.Adrian, Dennis. "Private Treasures, Public Spirit,''Art in Ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chicago
(''City in a Garden''); I Will , image_map = , map_caption = Interactive Map of Chicago , coordinates = , coordinates_footnotes = , subdivision_type = List of sovereign states, Country , subdivision_name = United States , subdivision_type1 = U.S. state, State , subdivision_type2 = List of counties in Illinois, Counties , subdivision_name1 = Illinois , subdivision_name2 = Cook County, Illinois, Cook and DuPage County, Illinois, DuPage , established_title = Settled , established_date = , established_title2 = Municipal corporation, Incorporated (city) , established_date2 = , founder = Jean Baptiste Point du Sable , government_type = Mayor–council government, Mayor–council , governing_body = Chicago City Council , leader_title = Mayor of Chicago, Mayor , leader_name = Lori Lightfo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don Baum
Don Baum (1922–2008) was an American curator, artist and educator, most known as a key impresario and promoter of the Chicago Imagists, a group of artists that had an enduring impact on American art in the later twentieth century.Friedman, Anna. "Don Baum," i''Art in Chicago 1945-1995'' Museum of Contemporary Art, ed. Lynne Warren, New York: Thames and Hudson, 1996, p. 244. Retrieved February 22, 2018.Jensen, Trevor with Alan G. Artner"Don Baum: 1922 – 2008,"''Chicago Tribune'', October 31, 2008. Retrieved April 20, 2018. Described by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (MCA) as "an indispensable curator of the Chicago school," Baum was known for lively and irreverent exhibitions that offered fresh perspectives combining elements of Surrealism and Pop and that broke down barriers between schooled and untrained, or so-called outsider artists. From 1956 to 1972, Baum was exhibitions director at Chicago's Hyde Park Art Center. It was there, in the 1960s, that he became invo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
