O/B Untitled, Purvis Young
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Description: Cityscape, with two people singing over buildings. Multi-colored on found wood.
History: Biography Purvis Young The work of the urban black vernacular artist, Purvis Young, has roots in the dreamy fields of high art subject matter-evoking Picasso in its riders, its elegant horses, its nudes. At the same time it is filled with the energy and syncretism of the world's vanguard-American urban Black culture. It is to "outsider art" what be bop is to the blues. The subject matter rides on a thick layer of color, attention, choice, free-swinging composition that refers to a thousand years of composition before it. Young lives and works in Overtown, a neighborhood in Miami cut off by the highway overpasses that loom over it. He is "of the community, but is also, now, of the larger art world as well."
Provenance: N/A
Dimensions: Weight (Pounds & Ounces) = 20.5 | Height(in) = 39.5 | Width(in) = 49 | Depth(in) = 2
Size of Artwork(in): 39.5 X 49 X 2"
Artist Name: Purvis Young
Medium: Paint / Wood
Circa: 20th Century
History: Biography Purvis Young The work of the urban black vernacular artist, Purvis Young, has roots in the dreamy fields of high art subject matter-evoking Picasso in its riders, its elegant horses, its nudes. At the same time it is filled with the energy and syncretism of the world's vanguard-American urban Black culture. It is to "outsider art" what be bop is to the blues. The subject matter rides on a thick layer of color, attention, choice, free-swinging composition that refers to a thousand years of composition before it. Young lives and works in Overtown, a neighborhood in Miami cut off by the highway overpasses that loom over it. He is "of the community, but is also, now, of the larger art world as well."
Provenance: N/A
Dimensions: Weight (Pounds & Ounces) = 20.5 | Height(in) = 39.5 | Width(in) = 49 | Depth(in) = 2
Size of Artwork(in): 39.5 X 49 X 2"
Artist Name: Purvis Young
Medium: Paint / Wood
Circa: 20th Century
Condition
Very Good
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O/B Untitled, Purvis Young
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