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BesøksstatistikkUntitled
Mixed Media- WallArt
- Contemporary Art
1980- Contemporary
76.0 x 123.0 cm
Souls Grown Deep
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)
"meta_description": "Purvis Young (1943-2010) var en Miami-kunstner kjent for sine fargerike collager og malerier som skildrer afroamerikansk liv og urban kultur i Overtown. Hans verk er funnet på store museer verden over."
Souls Grown Deep (Atlanta, USA)
Utforsk Souls Grown Deep: En feiring av svart kunst fra det amerikanske sør! Oppdag Gee's Bend-quilter, assemblage-kunst og inspirerende historier fra kunstnere som Thornton Dial og Lonnie Holley.
Om dette kunstverket
- Tittel: Untitled
- Kunstner: Purvis Young
- År: 1980
- Opprinnelige mål: 76.0 x 123.0 cm
- Format: Landscape
- Opphavsrettslig status: Opphavsrettslig beskyttet
- Hvor det kan sees: Souls Grown Deep
- Bevegelse: Contemporary Art
- Sammenheng for korpus: documenting miami street life , found paper medium
- Fargepalett: Neutrals
Kort om verket
- Subject or theme: Social life of Overtown, Miami
- Artist: Purvis Young
- Notable elements or techniques: Drawings on found paper and book pages
- Dimensions: 76 x 123 cm
- Year: 1980
- Title: Untitled