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James Brown

James Brown (1951 - 2020) was active/lived in New York, California / Mexico, France.  James Brown is known for Modernist, abstract painting and sculpture, tribal influences.

James Brown (born 1951)

He is an American-born painter now active in Paris and Oaxaca (Mexico).  He was most well known in the 1980s for his rough painterly semi-figurative paintings, bearing affinities to Jean-Michel Basquiat and East Village painting of the time, but with influences from primitive art and classical Western modernism.

Born in Los Angeles, California.  He received at BFA from Immaculate Heart College, Hollywood.  He then spent years in Paris, and attended the Ecole Superieure des Beaux Arts, Paris, France.  He rebelled against the classical training there, which he considered irrelevant, but stayed as he wanted to stay in Paris. 

Tours of Europe seeing Renaissance and especially Medieval painting of Italy influenced his work.  During the 1980s his paintings, mixing the modernist tradition of painterly application and adherence to the picture surface with clear influences from tribal art.
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