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Sam Francis - The Artist's Materials (Paperback)
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Sam Francis - The Artist's Materials (Paperback)
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American artist Sam Francis (1923-1994) brought vivid colour and
emotional intensity to Abstract Expressionism. He was described as
the "most sensuous and sensitive painter of his generation" by
former Guggenheim Museum director James Johnson Sweeney, and
curator Howard Fox called him "one of the acknowledged masters of
late-modern art." Francis's works, whether intimate or monumental
in scale, make indelible impressions; the intention of the artist
was to make them felt as much as seen. At the age of twenty,
Francis was hospitalised for spinal tuberculosis and spent three
years virtually immobilised in a body cast. For physical therapy he
was given a set of watercolours, and, as he described it, he
painted his way back to life. The exuberant colour and expression
in his paintings celebrated his survival; his five-decade career
was an energetic visual and theoretical exploration that took him
around the world. Francis' idiosyncratic painting practices have
long been the subject of speculation and debate among conservators
and art historians. Presented here for the first time in this
volume are the results of an in-depth scientific study of more than
forty paintings from the late 1940s to early 1990s, which reveal
new discoveries about his creative process, inventive techniques,
and specially formulated paints and binders. The data provides a
key to the complicated evolution of the artist's work and informs
original art historical interpretations.
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