Alfonso A. Ossorio (1916 - 1990) was active/lived in New York / Philippines. Alfonso Ossorio is known for Surreal view, assemblages, mural, paintings, sculptor, collage and assemblage.

Medium: Mixed media on paper
Size: 23" x 14 1/2"
Frame Size: 31 1/2" x 23"
Condition: Great, No Blemishes
Signature: Signed lower left initial Dated 67

Alfonso Ossorio in his painting showed his predilection for the art brut ("raw art") of the insane, criminals and children espoused by Jean Dubuffet who was a major influence on Ossorio from the age of thirty-three. For him, like many of his contemporaries, rational society, traditional art and existence failed to have meaning, which he sought in the darker avenues of the human spirit and the spontaneous, unpremeditated creations of innocence. Ossorio was also influenced by his friend Jackson Pollock, as well as Salvador Dali and Pablo Picasso.

Ossorio, the son of a wealthy sugar planter, was born in Manila, on the island of Luzon in the Philippines in 1916, becoming an American citizen in 1939. Educated in England and the United States, he studied at Harvard and the Rhode Island School of Design.

Ossorio eventually moved from painting to sculptural assemblage or junk art, utilizing a wide variety of objects including toys, broken glass, skeletons and glass eyes. He called this gathering of objects "congregations."

After the Second World War and his experiences in the medical corps, understandably resulting in morbid imagery, he began a study of religious iconography, which figured, in 1950, in a mural for the Church of St. Joseph in the Philippines.

In 1951, he purchased an estate on Long Island where he redirected much of his artistic energy to the creation of a sculpture and botanical garden.

Alfonso Ossorio died in 1990.

His work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, New York University and Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City; the Philadelphia Museum of Art; Rose Art Museum, Waltham, Massachusetts; Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford Connecticut; and Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut.



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