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Steven Assael

Steven Assael (Born 1957) is active/lives in New York.  Steven Assael is known for Contemporary realist figure painting.

Steven Assael is known for his realistic figurative painting.  As a child he showed an interest and skill in drawing.  He attended the Pratt Institute in the 1970s, when figural art was less in favor than minimalist painting and sculpture, process art, and word art. Despite this proclivity toward abstraction, Assael and a group of like-minded artists pursued their interest in figurative painting.(1)

Assael seeks to portray the heroic image in his contemporary compositions, much in the manner of a Caravaggio, a Velásquez, or a Goya, all of whom dealt with very complex and challenging images in their most mature and successful works.  With consummate skill, the artist builds surfaces to accurately reflect various textures and to suggest complex psychological scenarios.

In a 1995 statement for a group show at Queen's College, New York, Assael wrote: "From a conscious abandonment of modernist tenets grew a yearning fro reconciliation and r   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 1985 characters.]  Artist bio

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