Leon Golub
Leon Golub (American, January 23, 1922–August 8,
2004) was a painter by trade. Golub was born and studied in Chicago, IL. He
received his
bachelor of arts from the University of Chicago in 1942, his
bachelor’s in 1949, and his master’s in Fine Arts from the Art Institute of
Chicago in 1950. Frequently painting in a symbolic style, Golub depicted the
human body in various ways and obtained ideas from ancient Roman and Greek
sculpture, photos of sports competitions, and homosexual pornography. He
related his painting methodology with the sculptural process and used paint
scraping and layering techniques, occasionally with the use of a meat hatchet,
leaving some amounts of canvas undisturbed.
In the
beginning of the 1980s, Golub shifted his focus toward depicting terrorism in
various ways, from the oppressive government actions to metropolitan street
violence. Torture, killing fields, bars, brothels, and chambers became his
subjects and inspiration for work involving such motifs as racial inequality,
violent aggression, oppression, exclusion, and gender ambiguity. The most
notable works he created during this time wereInterrogation, Mercenaries, Horsing
Around, and Riot.
From the
1990s until his death, Golub produced work using the illusionistic style, with
some forms rather semi-visible, obtained from medieval manuscripts, ancient
carvings, and modern graffiti. When he got older, he started to consider the
mortality of man, and began to create work centered on loss, death, and
separation themes. The work of Golub is showcased in solo displays around the
world, including his 1991work World
Wide, which was displayed at the Brooklyn Museum of
Art. For this work, Golub used a process that was repeated in expositions at
various other museums, wherein he made the details and images in his paintings
larger, used translucent pieces of vinyl as screen, and hung them so every
viewer will clearly see them. Several group expositions represented Golub, who
was among the small number of White artists who became part of Black Male: Representations of
Masculinity in Contemporary American Art (1994), displayed at the Whitney
Museum of American Art. The artist died on August 8, 2004.
What is
about and which problems talk about
It’s a series
of pictures where we can appreciate a critique of all events that happen in his
time for example abuse of authority oppression, violence and others
Representative
elements
Many of the
paintings are made with acrylic paint however we can find others with oil stick,
lack and ink
Many of the
canvas are linen but we can find some with paper, Bristol boar and vellum
Make use of
some technical mixed like ink-oil, ink-acrylic
Uses mostly dark
tones like: brown, black, green, red.
Sensations
produced by gallery
The only
sensation that I have its like staying in another edge where there was war
The painting
that I like is
Bite your
tongue, 2001, acrylic in linen, 221 x 388
I like this
painting because the title it’s perfect, represent all things that the government
want to do the society, they deprive for some way our freedom and if for some
we try to affect the interests of government we going to have a serious problem
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