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Theodore Roszak

Theodore J. Roszak (1907 - 1981) was active/lived in New York / Poland.  Theodore Roszak is known for Abstract sculpture and drawing.

Sculptor, lithographer, and painter Theodore Roszak began his career as a painter but is best known for welded sculptures of brass and bronze that are tied to Constructivism and the ideas of the Bauhaus School. His signatures sculptures are pitted and scratched in texture and in style are abstract, often figural, and sometimes surreal in appearance. Some critics have compared them to gestural painting of the Abstract Expressionists. His themes combine myth and dismay with the contemporary world.

Some of the works for which he is best known are "Spectre of Kitty Hawk," 1946-47, Museum of Modern Art, New York City; and "Migrant," 1950, University of Illinois). The sculptures are projections that seem menacing and wanting to twist free from their cores. "Thin members are combined with broader metallic sheets in open construction, as if Roszak were adding to a Constructivist armature a menacing and probing content" (Baigell 309).

Roszak was born in Poznan, Poland in 1907 and   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 6377 characters.]  Artist bio

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