Clyfford Still

Style: Color Field;

Place: Grandin

Born: 1904

Death: 1980

Biography:

Early Life and Career

, an American painter, was born on November 30, 1904, in Grandin, North Dakota. He spent his childhood in Spokane, Washington, and Bow Island in southern Alberta, Canada. In 1925, he visited New York, briefly studying at the Art Students League. This marked the beginning of his artistic journey.

Artistic Style and Influences

Still's shift from representational to abstract painting occurred between 1938 and 1942, earlier than his colleagues like Mark Rothko and Mark Rothko, who continued to paint in figurative-surrealist styles well into the 1940s. His non-figurative paintings are non-objective, largely concerned with juxtaposing different colors and surfaces in a variety of formations.

Notable Works and Exhibitions

* 1957-D No. 1, 1957, mainly black and yellow with patches of white and a small amount of red, is one of his well-known paintings. * In 1943, Still's first solo show took place at the San Francisco Museum of Art. * A first comprehensive Still retrospective took place at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, in 1959.

Legacy and Influence

Still is considered one of the foremost Color Field painters. His large mature works recall natural forms and natural phenomena at their most intense and mysterious. By 1947, he had begun working in the format that he would intensify and refine throughout the rest of his career — a large-scale color field applied with palette knives.

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