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In the 1960s, Purvis Young was serving time in the Florida State Penitentiary for breaking and entering. While in prison, he began drawing and studying art, finding inspiration in the work of Rembrandt, El Greco, Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Picasso.After his release, Young began making what would become thousands of small drawings on found paper—correspondence, manila folders, bank statements, bills, memos—thrown away by offices and small manufacturing plants on the fringes of his community. He kept his drawings in shopping carts and later glued them into magazines he found in the street and discarded books from the Culmer/Overtown Branch Library.In his drawings, Purvis documented the social life, sexual rituals, playground sports, and the struggling and suffering of his Miami neighborhood of Overtown. Once a thriving community of Jamaican immigrants, Overtown had been decimated by the construction of Interstate 395 in the late 1960s.He returned again and again to favorite topics—basketball, horses, pregnant women, funerals, boats at sea, people of the streets—and would occasionally create a book with a hundred or more drawings dedicated to a single theme.

Purvis Young (1943 – 2010)

Descubre Purvis Young (1943-2010), artista autodidacta de Miami conocido por sus vibrantes collages y pinturas que exploran la experiencia afroamericana en el sur. ¡Su obra, celebrada en museos, refleja la vida urbana y comentario social!

Souls Grown Deep (Atlanta, Estados Unidos de América)

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Detalles de la obra

Título: Untitled
Artista: Purvis Young
Año: 1980
Dimensiones originales: 76.0 x 123.0 cm
Formato: Landscape
Estado de derechos de autor: Protegido por derechos de autor
Dónde verla: Souls Grown Deep
Movimiento: Contemporary Art
Contexto del corpus: documenting miami street life , found paper medium
Paleta de colores: Neutrals

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Title: Untitled
Subject or theme: Social life of Overtown, Miami
Influences:
- Rembrandt
- El Greco
- Van Gogh
- Gauguin
- Picasso
Artist: Purvis Young
Year: 1980
Dimensions: 76 x 123 cm

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Purvis Young (1943 – 2010)

Souls Grown Deep (Atlanta, Estados Unidos de América)

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