Irving Norman has described his motivation to paint as a "quest to synthesize the abstraction of Picasso-what he called Picasso's "freedom of design"-and the social commentary of Orozco."
Norman was born Irving Noachowitz in 1906 in the city of Vilna, when it was still under the Russian Czar. At the end of WWI Vilna became part of Poland, which is what he claims as his birthplace. Norman began to sketch and paint in his mid-thirties out of a need to express the rage from his experience wi (showing 500 of 6129 characters). |
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