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Jack Beal First Attained Prominence In The Early 1960s When He Was One Of The First American Artists To Renounce Abstract Expressionism For Realist Painting, Feeling That He Was Raising Rather Than Lowering The Stakes Of His Art By Doing So. Since Then The Artist Has, In Author Eric Shanes's Words, Mined A Rich Vein Of Representation, Which Has Usually Demonstrated A Fine Sense Of Observation, An Inventive Painterliness, An Acute Responsiveness To Shape And Pattern, The Ability To Create Dynamic Compositional Structures, And Always The Willingness To Take Artistic Risks Rather Than Languish In A Single Mode Of Picture Making.^ Moreover, In His Best Works, Beal's Pushing Of Representational Forms To Their Interface With Abstraction Has Been Responsible For The Creation Of Some Of The Most Striking And Unusual Images Of The Period. Jack Beal, The First Monograph On This Leading American Artist, Surveys His Entire Oeuvre To Date, Including Paintings, Murals, Drawings, And Prints, Beginning With What He Himself Regards As His First Important Picture, The Saw (1964). Beal's Increasing Desire To Make The World Inside The Canvas Nearly As Real As The World Beyond It, To Make The Pictorial

Author

Shanes, Eric

Publisher

New York: Hudson Hills Press

Published

1993

Language

EN

ISBN

9781555950392

Subjects

Art, Arts

Rating

4.7 / 5 (7 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14