John Marin ( born John Marin ; 1870 , Rutherford, NJ - 1953 , Cape Split, Maine ) is an American artist, a prominent representative of the first generation of American modernists.
| John Marin | |
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 John Marin, 1922 | |
| Birth name | English John marin |
| Date of Birth | December 23, 1870 |
| Place of Birth | Rutherford, New Jersey |
| Date of death | October 1, 1953 (82 years old) |
| Place of death | Cape Split, Maine |
| A country | |
| Genre | painter |
| Study | |
| Style | modernist |
Life and work
Mother Marina died nine days after his birth, and he was raised by two aunts in Wihoken . He attended the Stevens Institute of Technology for a year and tried unsuccessfully to become an architect. Until 1903 he studied painting in Philadelphia and New York . In the period from 1905 to 1911 he lived in Paris , but did not succumb to the influence of Fauvism and Cubism , focusing on the impressionist objectivity of James Abbot McNeill Whistler .
In 1912, after his thematic exhibition of watercolors in New York, he became a famous artist. A characteristic feature of these watercolors was the rejection of the clarity of the image contours in favor of tense, "pouring" surfaces. Since 1914, the main theme of his work has become the nature of Maine . In their expressiveness and spontaneity, paintings by John Marina are attributed to the abstract expressionist style of painting.
Literature
- Die Welt der Malerei, Köln 1990.