- Robert Moskowitz
Robert Moskowitz (born 1935 in
Brooklyn ,New York ) is a contemporaryJewish American painter who was influenced by, among other movements,Abstract Expressionism , and gained recognition in the 1960s onward for his paintings, drawings, and prints that work in the intersection between Abstract Expressionism, Minimalism andPop Art .He was influenced in his early career by such eminent artists as
Jasper Johns andRobert Rauschenberg .Although his work has been described as a "significant link between the Abstract Expressionism of the New York School and the "New Image Abstraction" painters of the mid-1970s," Moskowitz has received relatively little public attention and never achieved the level of fame that many of his peers have. [1]
Early life
In 1948, Robert Moskowitz, son of Louis and Lily Moskowitz, was left to care for his youngest daughter, Karen, after his father left the family and his mother was forced to make occasional trips to
Florida for work. He showed little artistic capability as a child, but enrolled after school at theMechanics Institute of Manhattan to pursue engineering drafting. In 1956 he began studying at thePratt Institute in Brooklyn where he studied underAdolph Gottlieb .Moskowitz traveled to Europe in 1959, where he met British collage and assemblage artist
Gwyther Irwin . At Irwin's suggestion, Moskowitz moved into an artist's community outside ofLondon where he was able to purchase his first studio space.Early Work, Rise to Fame (1959-1963)
Moskowitz's first serious body of paintings came from the discovery of a window shade hanging high in his studio space. Following lessons taken from Johns, Rauschenberg, and
Marcel Duchamp , Moskowitz began to place intact objects, such as the window shade, directly on his paintings as a form of collage. His work of this period, primarily untitled collage paintings, culminated in a solo exhibition atLeo Castelli Gallery in 1962, in between solo exhibitions ofRoy Lichtenstein andFrank Stella .References
*cite book |last= Rifkin|first= Ned|title= Robert Moskowitz|origyear= 1989|publisher=Thames and Hudson |location=New York |isbn= 0500091994
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