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Birth
1937 (Louisville, Kentucky)
Death
1966 (Rome, Italy)
Lived/Active
Kentucky/New York/Massachusetts
Self portrait
Often Known For
figurative expressionist, religion
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Fauves/Fauvism
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An African-American, Bob Thompson had success in the 1960s as an artist,
which was unusual for black artists of that era and led to his becoming
a pivotal figure for African-American artists and for art
historians. However, his life was cut short when he died in Rome
in 1966 just before his twenty-ninth birthday.
Thompson was a modernist who adapted Paul Gauguin's Fauvist use of interlocking
planes of bright colors. He often used Biblical subjects, and created (showing 500 of 14673 characters). |
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