ARTIST: Carol Sirak (New Jersey, Pennsylvania, 1906 - 1976)
NAME: Landscape - Summer Day (titled on verso)
MEDIUM: oil on canvas
CONDITION: Few tears and punctures repaired with patches. No visible inpaint under UV light.
SIGHT SIZE: 25 x 30 inches / 63 x 76 cm
FRAME SIZE: 28 x 33 inches / 71 x 83 cm
SIGNATURE: lower right and on verso
PROVENANCE: Alderfer Auction Company, Date 2011-06-08, Lot 3020
CATEGORY: antique vintage painting
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BIOGRAPHY:
Carol Sirak was born in 1906 and was predominantly inspired creatively by the 1920s. The 1920s and 1930s saw continued development and evolution of the key innovations of the early years of the twentieth century. To have this time as the formative period for an artist was to be surrounded by incredible practitioners of the visual arts. It was also a time of recovery and introspection after the horrors of the First World War, which saw important shifts in the political world. Marxism was a widespread political ideology which was also enormously influential amid artists and their communities. noteworthy artistic developments included a kind of expressive characteristic which was epitomised by Brancusi, Modigliani and Soutine in Paris. Surrealism grew throughout the 1920s and 1930s, with a focus on the human unconscious - a key idea of Freudian theory. Important Surrealist artists include Salvador Dali, Giorgio de Chirico, Andre Breton, Rene Magritte and Paul Delvaux. Due to its cultural importance, much of this ideology spread internationally. The Bauhaus was founded in 1919, and became an indispensable place surrounding ideas in favour of the unification of art, craft and design disciplines an idea that became known as the Gesamtkunstwerk. Surrealism came to be the key expressive mode of the 1920s, and was aided by the liberalism of Germany's Weimar Republic, which was an environment that allowed for remarkable creative blossoming.