mercredi 11 juin 2014

Degrazia And Munch Paintings

By Darren Hartley


The DeGrazia paintings are lifelong appreciation of the native cultures in the Sonoran desert and passion for the creation of art depicting their lives and lore. The early DeGrazia paintings were created in Bisbee. In 1941, Raymond Carlson, editor of Arizona Highways, started to publish features about Ettore, nicknamed Ted by a schoolteacher in the Morenci High School.

In 1944, Ted bought an acre of land at Prince Road and Campbell Avenue to build his first adobe studio. This was after Tucson galleries showed no interest in exhibiting passionate DeGrazia paintings. It was in this studio where he met Marion Sheret and subsequently married her in the jungles of Mexico in 1947.

DeGrazia paintings steadily attracted media attention. They were featured in the NBC newsreel titled Watch the World and in a profile article in a 1953 edition of National Geographic entitled From Tucson to Tombstone. It was in 1960 that their fame flourished when a 1957 DeGrazia oil painting, Los Ninos, was chosen by UNICEF for a holiday card. The card sold millions worldwide.

The mental illness Edvard Munch's father suffered from appears to be the root cause for the strong mental anguish displayed in the majority of Munch paintings. Brought up with impounding fears of hell, Edvard grew up with many repressed emotions that led to his work taking a deeper tone.

The term given to the style of Munch paintings was Symbolism. They were expressions of a personal sense of art, instead of an external view. They were representations of the inward feelings and repressed emotions of Edvard. In short, what you get is not what you actually see, when it comes to Munch paintings.

There was a period between 1892 and 1908 that Munch paintings took to tones and colors that were a bit more cheerful, compared to Edvard's past accomplishments. This was a time when Edvard showed an interest in nature. This colourful, playful and fun tone noted in his work was in complete opposition to the dark and somber style of his earlier career.




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