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Jules Olitski

Jules Olitski (1922 - 2007) was active/lived in New York.  Jules Olitski is known for Color-field abstraction, sculptor, graphics.

Color Field painter, Jules Olitski was a GI Bill student in Paris, where he had his first solo exhibition in 1951.  Later in New York, with his GI compatriot Ellsworth Kelly, "he explored the autonomy of materials in terms of a completely flat definition of shape and color."  He then investigated the staining techniques established by Helen Frankenthaler, Kenneth Noland, and Morris Louis, and finally in the 1960s arrived at the method of spray painting which has become his domain by right of accomplishment.  Olitski adopted a technique in which he employed airbrushes or squeegees, applying paint in a multilayered film.

Olitski, together with Larry Poons, Noland, Frankenthaler and Louis, was at the center of an absorbed interest in color which became especially prominent by the end of the 1950s--an interest given focus by a series of exhibitions organized by Clement Greenberg in 1958.

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.  There are 24 similar (related) artists for Jules Olitski available:    Larry Poons,  Friedel Dzubas,  Kenneth Noland,  Robert Burns Motherwell,  Helen Frankenthaler,  Louise Berliawsky Nevelson,  Adolph Gottlieb,  Richard Anuszkiewicz,  Morris Louis,  Claes Thure Oldenburg,  Josef Albers,  Hans Hofmann,  Jim Dine,  Theodoros S Stamos,  Gene B Davis,  Larry Rivers,  Frank Stella,  Brice Marden,  Tom Wesselmann,  Alexander Semeonovitch Liberman,  Sam Lewis Francis,  James Brooks,  Robert Peter Mangold,  Franz Josef Kline



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Facts about Jules Olitski

   Jules Olitski  Born:  1922 - Shchors, Ukraine
Died:   2007 - New York City
Known for:  Color-field abstraction, sculptor, graphics

Color Field painter, Jules Olitski was a GI Bill student in Paris, where he had his first solo exhibition in 1951.  Later in New York, with his GI compatriot Ellsworth Kelly, "he explored the autonomy of materials in terms of a completely flat definition of shape and color."  He then investigated the staining techniques established by Helen Frankenthaler, Kenneth Noland, and Morris Louis, and finally in the 1960s arrived at the method of spray painting which has become his domain by right of accomplishment.  Olitski adopted a technique in which he employed airbrushes or squeegees, applying paint in a multilayered film.

Olitski, together with Larry Poons, Noland, Frankenthaler and Louis, was at the center  ...  Displaying 750 of 4309 characters.

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