"Stanley William Hayter in America Paintings, Drawings, and Prints 1940-1950" Exhibition
Francis M. Naumann Fine Art
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This show is confined exclusively to work produced by Hayter during his years in New York (that is to say, during the 1940s). It has been argued that this period marked the moment of his greatest influence, not only among printmakers, but in the emergence of Abstract Expressionism in America. Hayter advocated both the theory and practice of ‘automatism,’ wherein an artist is encouraged to empty his or her mind and allow the unconscious to direct their work, a critical tool that helped to fuse a Surrealist technique with the expressive power of abstraction. Indeed, in whatever media Hayter works, and no matter how abstract the imagery becomes, there is always a semblance of a subject, an imagery defined almost exclusively by line.
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Schedule
from January 08, 2009 to February 20, 2009