The Wandering Soul of American Folk Art Jon Serl was a man whose life was as layered and textured as the very canvases he created. Born Josef Searls in 1894 in the quiet town of Olean, New York, his journey to becoming a singular voice in American folk art was anything but linear. Before he ever picked up a brush with serious intent, Serl lived a thousand lives under a dozen different names. He was the vaudeville performer known as Slats, a charismatic figure mastering the arts of dance, song, and impersonation; he was Jerry Palmer, navigating the transition from silent films to the era of s…
Pregled korpusa umetnika Jon Serl, mapiran ne po datumu, već po tematici. Žice predstavljaju ono što su slikali; prstenovi označavaju vreme; a niti između zvezda otkrivaju pokrovitelje i mesta koja ih tajno povezuju.
Svaki krug u atlasu grupiše dela prema onome što prikazuju: portrete, religiozne scene, mitologije i naučna istraživanja. Kliknite na jedan od segmenata kako biste taj skup pomerili na vrh.
Udaljenost od centra označava vreme. Najunutrašniji prsten predstavlja najraniji period; najudaljeniji, poslednje godine. Stil sazreva kako se krećete ka spoljašnjim krugovima.
Obojene linije povezuju dela koja su ujedinjena istim pokroviteljem, narudžbinom ili temom. Pratite kontekst kako biste videli kako se povezani klasteri osvetljavaju kroz različite teme.