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Paul Resika

Paul Resika (Born 1928) is active/lives in New York.  Paul Resika is known for Modernist landscape, marine, genre.

Paul Resika (b.1928-) is an abstract figurative and landscape painter whose paintings are meditations on nature.  Notable for their geometric forms placed against a mixed palette of high-keyed and subdued color, Resika's paintings create striking oppositions between form, color, and light.  Like the paintings of Bonnard, Resika's work encapsulates the hidden power of nature with its color and forms.  Resika himself states that he strives to capture "a feeling for nature but without nature."  His work blends the figurative with the abstract in such a way that one senses Resika's response to both his physical and interior worlds. 

Born in New York City, Resika studied with Hans Hofmann in the 1940s and received his first show at age nineteen, at New York's George Dix Gallery in 1948.  He was part of what is now considered the second generation of the New York School—artists who applied abstract expressionist techniques, such as the emphasis on   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2073 characters.]  Artist bio

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