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Birth
1923 (New York, New York)
Death
2002 (Southampton, New York)
Lived/Active
New York
Self portrait - Artist Self-Portrait Licensed by Vaga
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Often Known For
mod-pop figure, word image genre
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Modernism
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A post-Abstract Expressionist, Larry Rivers was one of the first artists to rebel against the pure abstraction and inject recognizable figurative subjects into his painting. He established a middle ground between abstraction and realism and combined blurred images with precise lines.
He was born in New York City, and after studying music at the Julliard School, he became a painter. From 1947 to 1948, he studied with Hans Hofmann and William Baziotes and was very much a part of the leading (showing 500 of 10988 characters). |
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