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Robert H Colescott

Robert H. Colescott (1925 - 2009) was active/lived in Arizona, California.  Robert Colescott is known for Mod satire-genre, crowds-objects.

Robert H. Colescott, born in Oakland, California in 1925, was a painter of Afro-American life and social commentary in a semi-abstract, antic, cartoon, anecdotal style related in composition to the early Cubism of French artists Marc Chagall and Fernand Leger, with whom he studied in Paris for a year.

Of his figurative painting, it was written that his "garishly, powerful canvases lampooned racial and sexual stereotypes with rakish imagery, lurid colors, and almost tangible glee.  . . .People of all colors haunt Mr. Colescott's paintings, mostly as chimerical stereotypes that exchange attributes freely.  Their mottled skin tones often suggest one race seeping through another.  Their  tumultuous interaction evoke a volatile mixture of suspicion, desire, pain and vitality.  His slurred shapes, wobbly drawing and patchy brushwork imply that no truths can be held to be self-evident, that life is mired in slippery layers of false piety, self-interest and gre   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 4262 characters.]  Artist bio

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