David Salle Paintings

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David salle paintings. This painting is a prime example of salle s use of pastiche in which he appropriates styles that imitate another work artist or period. The painting has a sun drenched pop infused look to it the central text derived from a whiskey ad. The vertical bar at the center neatly divides the canvas as though into two still frames. Oil and acrylic on canvas.

I was able to rent a studio in frank gehry s building in los angeles for a few months. Image courtesy of david salle. Angels in the rain contains images of angel statuary performing bears and acrobats as well as examples of the portraits interiors and still lifes that continue to distinguish david salle s work. This painting doesn t really have anything to do with charlie mingus.

For permissions and requests see contact page. 28 1952 norman okla u s american painter who together with such contemporaries as julian schnabel and robert longo regenerated big gestural expressionist painting after years of pared down minimalism and conceptual art. A ll images david salle vaga at artists rights society ars ny courtesy of skarstedt ny. He is well known for his large scale canvases featuring a sparse seemingly disjunctive arrangement of elements often including provocatively posed women and nudes and the use of grisaille.

Neo expressionist painter david salle gained prominence in the 1980s as a leader in the return to figuration along with contemporaries julian schnabel francesco clemente eric fischl and jean michel basquiat. We can see the jagged brushstrokes of clyfford still the clunky assemblage of robert rauschenberg the iconic lettering of ed ruscha and the realistic one toned figuration of the human body as per lucien freud. Mingus in mexico 1990. David salle is a contemporary american painter printmaker and photographer.

A prominent neo expressionist artist his collage like paintings feature overlapping imagery from a variety of sources such as magazines interior décor and art history layering figures and patterns into colorful compositions rendered in a straightforward uncomplicated style. Salle is known for mixing modes of representation and appropriated ready made motifs in a single canvas suggesting but defying any legible narrative. The title of salle s painting final cut 1993 evokes the language of cinema. David salle born september 28 1952 is an american painter printmaker photographer and stage designer.

Salle was born in norman oklahoma and lives and works in east hampton new york he earned a bfa and mfa from the california institute of the arts valencia california where he studied with john baldessari salle s work first came to public attention in new york in the early 1980s. Summary of david salle david salle s career in art was incubated in the distinct hotbed of post studio artists under the tutelage of the renowned john baldessari. David salle born sept.