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Robert De Niro Sr

Robert De Niro, Sr. (1922 - 1993) was active/lived in New York.  Robert De Niro Sr is known for Modernist figure and portrait painting, abstract expression.

Robert De Niro, Sr. (1922-1993) was a postwar artist whose paintings combined modernist abstract and expressionist methods with traditional compositions and subject matter.  Part of the New York School of the forties and fifties, De Niro, painted representational subject matter—landscapes, still lifes, and figures—but used these themes primarily as formal constructs for exploring the possibilities inherent in paint, color, and form.

De Niro's utilization of action painting and gestural expression places his work within the abstract expressionist discourse but it nonetheless remains firmly grounded in European, specifically French, antecedents.

Born in Syracuse, New York, De Niro showed artistic promise at a very early age.   At 18, he attended Black Mountain College in North Carolina where he studied under Josef Albers.  However, chafing under the rigidity of Albers' theories, he decamped to New York a year later, in 1941, to stu   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 7919 characters.]  Artist bio

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Keywords and Quick Facts for Robert De Niro Sr


   Keywords 
Art Method
  • Easel Painting
  • Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
  • Palette Knife, Heavy Texture
  • Sculpture, Three Dimensional Forms, Sculptor
Art MediaArt StyleArt Subject
  • Figure, Figurative Humans
  • Portraits, Portraiture
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
  • Cape Cod, Massachusetts
  • Provincetown, Massachusetts
Art Teacher
  • Hans Hofmann
  • Josef Albers
Art School
  • Black Mountain College, North Carolina, Student
Chronology
  • Late 20th Century After 1950
Added Description
  • Art Educator: Teaching, Scholarship, Workshops and/or Writing
  • Figure Specialty
Exhibition of Museum
  • Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum/Museum of Non Objective Painting
  • Whitney Biennial Museum of American Art

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