Thoughts on 1962 Surreal/Nude Painting Signed Schwartz '62 - Is This a Known Artist?

Discussion in 'Art' started by journeymagazine, Oct 14, 2021.

  1. journeymagazine

    journeymagazine Well-Known Member

    I found this painting today at a thrift store. I think it's surreal?
    It's signed Schwartz '62 - does anyone know who this Schwartz is?
    Thoughts on the painting?
    Thank you!

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  2. Debora

    Debora Well-Known Member

    Would you please post an in focus close-up photograph of the framer's label?

    Debora
     
  3. antidiem

    antidiem Well-Known Member

  4. antidiem

    antidiem Well-Known Member

    This is not an example of surrealism either..
     
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  5. sabre123

    sabre123 Well-Known Member

    I'd call that Expressionism.
     
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  6. journeymagazine

    journeymagazine Well-Known Member

    It's a Rag Shop framing store label Debora - a lot newer than 1962!

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  7. journeymagazine

    journeymagazine Well-Known Member

    Not Impressionist?
     
  8. Debora

    Debora Well-Known Member

    So closed in 2007 and been in business 30 years, which is right for label graphics. A hobby shop like Michael's or JoAnn's at the time focusing on fabrics, crafts and framing. Retail presence in New Jersey and Florida.

    Debora
     
  9. journeymagazine

    journeymagazine Well-Known Member

    Yes, but painting is dated 1962
     
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  10. sabre123

    sabre123 Well-Known Member

    Expressionism is a modernist movement, initially in poetry and painting, originating in Northern Europe around the beginning of the 20th century. Its typical trait is to present the world solely from a subjective perspective, distorting it radically for emotional effect in order to evoke moods or ideas.

    Impressionism is a 19th-century art movement characterized by relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes, open composition, emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities (often accentuating the effects of the passage of time), ordinary subject matter, unusual visual angles, and inclusion of movement as a crucial element of human perception and experience.
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    Definitely not Impressionism.
     
  11. charlie cheswick

    charlie cheswick Well-Known Member

    If that's a tape measure in his hand, I'd call it idealism

    Yep, it's my job to lower the tone:)
     
  12. Any Jewelry

    Any Jewelry Well-Known Member

    Although there are still people out there who insist on calling it realism.:muted::sorry:
     
  13. Lithographer

    Lithographer Well-Known Member

    What about Post Modern Partially Abstracted Impressionistic Semi-Hyper Deconstructed Expressionistic Neo Realism. I think the signature is a good indicator of the skill or seriousness of the artist, looks like they struggled to scratch it out with a ball point pen.
     
  14. Any Jewelry

    Any Jewelry Well-Known Member

    That about sums it up.:playful:
     
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  15. judy

    judy Well-Known Member

    Still chuckling...............ty!
     
  16. Any Jewelry

    Any Jewelry Well-Known Member

    Light in Impressionism:

    Claude Monet's Haystacks, 1890-91
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    Alfred Sisley's "Vue du Canal St Martin", 1870 1280px-Alfred_Sisley_001.jpg
     
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  17. Any Jewelry

    Any Jewelry Well-Known Member

    Surrealism, dream or even nightmare-like, inspired by Sigmund Freud and early psychology:

    Dalí's "Persistence of Memory", 1931
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  18. Any Jewelry

    Any Jewelry Well-Known Member

    Expressionism, not dream like, but expressing a strong emotion in colours and shapes. No early psychology involved, just plain old raw emotion.;) The way those emotions are expressed can be very different, but it always has to do with either colours, shapes/lines, or both:

    Egon Schiele's "Selfportrait", 1912(?):
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    One of my favourite Expressionist paintings, "The White Horse", 1925, by Jan Altink, a member of the Dutch artist association "De Ploeg":
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    (Yes, I have done my best to avoid "The Scream":arghh:)
     
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  19. Lithographer

    Lithographer Well-Known Member

  20. Debora

    Debora Well-Known Member

    Good suggestion above. He taught at Florida Gulf Coast University for many years and the school holds a number of his works. Perhaps there's someone there you can ask. This librarian, for instance. If she can't help, may be able to direct you on. Figure may be Mercury with winged hat and magic wand. Let's ask @Bronwen what she thinks.

    Debora

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