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Robert Mattison
Robert Mattison is an American academic, art historian, curator, and author who is the Marshall R. Metzger Emeritus professor of art history at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania. He is known for his authorship on abstract expressionism, especially the painters Robert Motherwell and Franz Kline. Biography Mattison earned his BA in art history from Middlebury College in Midddlebury, Vermont and his MA from Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, where he studied with George Heard Hamilton and Julius Held. He received MFA and PhD from Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey, where he studied with Sam Hunter. Mattison's doctoral dissertation at Princeton became his first book "Robert Motherwell: The Formative Years" (UMI Research Press 1987). His second book was "Grace Hartigan: A Painter’s World" ( Jasper Johns">udson Hills Press 1990). In 1995, he authored "Masterworks in the Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection : Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lafayette College
Lafayette College is a private college, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Easton, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1826 by James Madison Porter and other citizens in Easton, the college first held classes in 1832. The founders voted to name the college after Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, General Lafayette, a hero of the American Revolution. Located on College Hill in Easton, the campus is in the Lehigh Valley, about west of New York City and north of Philadelphia. Lafayette College guarantees campus housing to all enrolled students. The college requires students to live in campus housing for their first three years unless approved for residing at home as a commuter. Seniors can apply to live off campus. The student body, consisting entirely of Undergraduate education, undergraduates, comes from 46 U.S. states and Territories of the United States, territories and nearly 60 countries. Students at Lafayette have access to more than ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Stella
Frank Philip Stella (May 12, 1936 – May 4, 2024) was an American painter, sculptor, and printmaker, noted for his work in the areas of minimalism and post-painterly abstraction. He lived and worked in New York City for much of his career before moving his studio to Rock Tavern, New York. Stella's work catalyzed the minimalist movement in the late 1950s. He moved to New York City in the late 1950s, where he created works which emphasized the picture-as-object. These were influenced by the abstract expressionist work of artists like Franz Kline and Jackson Pollock. He developed a reductionist approach to his art, saying he wanted to demonstrate that for him, every painting is "a flat surface with paint on it—nothing more", and disavowed conceptions of art as a means of expressing emotion. He won notice in the New York art world in 1959 when his four black pinstripe paintings were shown at the Museum of Modern Art. Stella was a recipient of the National Medal of Arts in 2009 and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
