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Purvis Young (1943 - 2010) was active/lived in Florida. Purvis Young is known for Mod naive urban views, installation.
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." He has researched art history avidly and has seen what other artists have done, spending years in the libraries that have supported his work. He has chosen his imagery out of Overtown and his own life, and out of the resonances of the past as well.
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Lonnie B Holley
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David Butler
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Mose Ernest Tolliver
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Sam Doyle
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Miles Carpenter
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Nellie Mae Rowe
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Ronald Cooper
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Lorenzo Scott
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Archie Byron
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Peter Keil
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Alpha Andrews
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William Hawkins
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Eddie Arning
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Inez Nathaniel Walker
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Gayleen Aiken
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Shields Landon (S L) Jones
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Bill Traylor
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Mattie Lou O'Kelley
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Jon Serl
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Herbert "Coon" Singleton
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Art Method
Easel Painting
Installation Art
Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
Art Media
Acrylic Paint
Assemblage
Enamel Paint
Ink
Mixed Media, Multi Media
Oil Paint
Watercolor/Watercolour
Wood
Art Style
Abstraction, Abstract
Expressive, Expressionist, Expressionism
Folk Art, Naive, Primitive
Naive, Childlike, Intuitive
Pure Abstraction, Line, Shape, Color, Texture
Sophisticated Naive, Primitive
Art Subject
Folk Art, Folk Lore
Social Commentary, Cultural Issues, Political, Racial Views
Urban Scene, City Genre
Chronology
Late 20th Century After 1950
Added Description
Outsider Art
Ethnicity of Artist
Black, African-American and/or Caribbean
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