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American Proto-Pop Artist Stuart Davis

DateMonday, June 11, 2012 at 11:18AM

Stuart Davis, The Mellow Pad - 1945-51 - Oil on canvas, 26 x 42 in; Brooklyn Museum, New York (click photo for larger image)Stuart Davis  (1894-1964, New York, New York) was an American abstract artist whose idiosyncratic Cubist paintings of urban scenes anticipated the use of commercial art and advertising by the Pop artists of the 1960s. He was heavily influenced by the Synthetic Cubism of the early Modern period--but interpreted that visual language in unique ways. Davis’ works are characterized by wit and joy, which provided a sharp (and to some, welcome) contrast to the melodrama of Abstract Expressionism.

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