Conrad marca relli biography template
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Conrad Marca-Relli, nee Corrado Marcarelli, was born in Boston, Massachusetts on 5 June 1913 and his childhood was spent between the United States and Italy. His family moved to New York when he was thirteen years old and, in 1930, at the age of seventeen, he enrolled in Cooper Union where he studied for a year. He then worked for the Works Progress Administration (WPA) from 1935 to 1938. His first assignment was as a teacher at the Leonardo da Vinci Art School and later he worked in the easel and mural divisions. During this time he met fellow artists Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, and John Graham and he won the Logan Medal of the Arts from the Art Institute of Chicago.
Marca-Relli served in the US Army between 1941 and 1945 and then returned to New York in 1946. In 1949, he joined other artists to form the "Downtown Group"whose workshop was located at 39 East 8th Street in Greenwich Village. Artist members also included Willem de Kooning, Robert Motherwell, Fr
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Conrad Marca-Relli was born to Italian parents in Boston on June 5, 1913. In 1927 he moved to New York with his family. He attended a private art school and took evening classes in painting, developing an interest in Italian Renaissance art. In 1930 he enrolled in an art program at the Cooper Union Institute, New York. While working at the WPA Federal Art Project from 1935 to 1938, he got to know such artists as Willem de Kooning, John Graham, and Franz Kline, who led him to completely change his vision of painting.
After completing military service, Marca-Relli moved to Birdcliff, near Woodstock, where he produced paintings that were clearly influenced by Surrealist and Metaphysical art. Back in New York in 1947, he held his first solo exhibition at the Niveau Gallery and went to Paris in September of the same year. In 1948, disappointed by the Parisian art scene, he moved to Rome, where he exhibited for two consecutive years, joined Italian artistic circles, an
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Summary of Conrad Marca-Relli
Conrad Marca-Relli was a Boston-born painter and sculptor who belonged to the early generation of New York School Abstract Expressionist artists. Following a period of painting Surrealist inspired imagery, Marca-Relli made a critical breakthrough with large-scale collage paintings that frequently drew inspiration from the human struktur to create abstract compositions of interlocking curves and angles. He is considered to be one of the first artists to raise the art of collage to a ställning eller tillstånd comparable with monumental painting, which paved the way for the large "combine paintings" of the Neo-Dada artists of the 1960s.
Accomplishments
- Early in his career, Marca-Relli recognized that for abstraction to be emotionally moving, the use of psychologically affecting shapes and textures were necessary. Contours and shapes in his work were therefore based on imagined architectural themes or figure arrangemang but were deliberately left ambiguous.
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