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Roy Dean De Forest

Roy Dean De Forest (1930 - 2007) was active/lived in California, Nebraska.  Roy De Forest is known for Modernist naive drollery painting, funk collage.

Art © Estate of Roy De Forest/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY

Roy De Forest became a painter of work not easily categorized because of his independent approach to the profession.   He has evolved through several styles from abstraction to funk to realism with subjects ranging from non-objective to realistic animals.  His early work was comprised of larger, overlapping, amorphous shapes in bright colors with detailed patterns within.

However, a consistent philosophy for his mature work has been irreverence for academic convention and a joy in being creative and finding his own way.  In his paintings, he expresses a personal pleasure in how own fantasies from which he constructs "hypothetical beings, situations and worlds".  The intent is to "preserve this possible world, with all its animals and creatures, for my own private viewing, fun and enjoyment."

Roy De Forest was born in North Platte, Nebraska in 1930, but was raised from the time he was in the third grade in Yakima, Washington Centr   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 8335 characters.]  Artist bio

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