Born in Dodge City, Kansas, Billy Al Bengston became a part of the
1960s California Pop-Art movement and pioneered the use of industrial
and spray paint techniques in his fine art painting. He combined
this method with symmetrical formal images in centralized
composition. He became known for work that created stunning,
dazzling optical effects.
Bengston moved to California in 1948
with his family and associated with sculptor Kenneth Price, painter
Richard Diebenkorn, an (showing 500 of 5763 characters). |
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