Fine Art: Ron B. Kitaj: Pictures posted to alt.binaries.pictures.misc
Walter Michael Sumper
During the next days I will post 9 high-resolution jpegs of works of Ron B.
Kitaj to alt.binaries.pictures.misc:
WRITING.JPG 605 144 120 136
OHIOGANG.JPG 339 144 120 136
OAK_TREE.JPG 73 144 120 136
MARY_ANN.JPG 671 3 120 136
MARYNKA.JPG 538 3 120 136
IFNOTNOT.JPG 405 3 120 136
CECIL_CT.JPG 272 3 120 136
AUTUMN.JPG 139 3 120 136
AMERIKA.JPG 6 3 120 136
You can download these pictures and more fine art from:
<http://lonestar.texas.net/~mharden/ftp_site.htm>
(Mark Hardens Fine Art Site at Texas, US)
or from David Fox's Mirror at Ney York University:
<http://www.cat.nyu.edu/fox/art/>
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Kitaj, Ron B. (1932- ). American painter and graphic artist, active mainly in
England, where he has been one of the most prominent
figures of the Pop art movement.
Before becoming a student at the Royal College of Art, Kitaj had travelled
widely (he was a merchant seaman, then served in the US
army) and his wide cultural horizons gave him an influential position among his
contemporaries (he studied with Hockney and Allen
Jones), particularly in holding up his own preference for figuration in
opposition to the prevailing abstraction.
After a visit to Paris in 1975, he was inspired by Degas to take up pastel,
which he has used for much of his subsequent work. Late
19th-century French art has been a major source of inspiration, as has a
preoccupation with his Jewish identity, and he has said: `I
took it into my cosmopolitan head that I should attempt to do Cézanne and Degas
and Kafka over again, after Auschwitz.' Unlike
the majority of Pop artists, Kitaj has had relatively little interest in the
culture of the mass media and has evolved a multi-evocative
pictorial language, deriving from a wide range of pictorial and literary
sources-- indeed he has declared that he is not a Pop artist.
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KITAJ, R.B.
Amerika (Baseball)
1983-84
Oil on canvas
60 x 60 in. (152.4 x 152.4 cm)
Private collection, New York
KITAJ, R.B.
The Autumn of Central Paris (after Walter Benjamin)
1972-3
Oil on canvas
60 x 60 in. (152.4 x 152.4 cm)
Collection Mrs. Susan Lloyd, New York
KITAJ, R.B.
Cecil Court, London WC2 (The Refugees)
1983-84
Oil on canvas
72 x 72 in. (182.9 x 182.9 cm)
The Tate Gallery, London
KITAJ, R.B.
If Not, Not
1975-76
Oil on canvas
60 x 60 in. (152.4 x 152.4 cm)
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
KITAJ, R.B.
Marynka Smoking
1980
Pastel and charcoal on paper
35 3/4 x 22 1/4 in. (90.8 x 56.5 cm)
Collection of the artist
KITAJ, R.B.
Mary Ann
1980
Pastel and charcoal on paper
30 1/2 x 22 in. (77.5 x 56 cm)
Private collection, London
KITAJ, R.B.
The Oak Tree
1991
Oil on canvas
60 1/8 x 60 in. (152.7 x 152.4 cm)
Private collection
KITAJ, R.B.
The Ohio Gang
1964
Oil on canvas
72 x 72 in. (182.9 x 182.9 cm)
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
KITAJ, R.B.
Passion (1940-45) Writing
1985
Oil on canvas
18 x 10 1/2 in. (45.7 x 26.7 cm)
Collection of the artist
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