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Joseph Raffael

Joseph Raffael (1933 - 2021) was active/lived in California / France.  Joseph Raffael is known for Post real painting-figure, still life, and fish, photography.

Joseph Raffael, painter and printmaker, was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1933.  He studied at Cooper Union, New York City, 1953-54, and received a Summer Fellowship to the Yale-Norfolk School in 1954.  He received his BFA degree from the Yale University School of Art, 1954-56, studying with Josef Albers.

His early 1960s Photo-Realist paintings depicted nature based on photographs of animals, ponds and foliage.  Large-scale close-ups of animal faces, such as Lizard Head, and human faces like "African Lady," were said to reflect a deep concern for nature.  Raffael states his interest in "observing fertile and fantastic things that have within them the power to erupt, like Vesuvius."

Raffael's media changed from oil to watercolor, pastel and lithography as his interpretations of natural phenomena evolved from being photo-realistic to more impressionistic, as in Luxembourg Gardens: Memory, a watercolor.  Ra   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 8724 characters.]  Artist bio

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