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Robert Bonaparte

Robert Bonaparte (Born 1933) is active/lives in California.  Robert Bonaparte is known for Abstract figurative painting, cartoons, ink drawing.

Robert Bonaparte was born in 1933 and grew up in Oklahoma City where he was boyhood friends with Ed Ruscha. In an oral history interview conducted for the Archives of American Art, Ruscha mentions that he was first exposed to art-making by his friend “Bob” Bonaparte who lived two doors away. He recalled that Bonaparte was “able to draw very well” and that Bonaparte “drew cartoons and he introduced me to the first factor in my life with art, which was India ink”.

In 1959, Bonaparte and other young Oklahoma artists including Ruscha, Joe Goode, Jerry McMillan, and Mason Williams moved to Los Angeles in order to get involved with the burgeoning art scene there.

Bonaparte’s work features soft fauvist colors, a subtle sense of whimsy and an occasional nod toward surrealism. Many of his works have enigmatic narrative components that invite the viewer to consider an underlying story but never fully reveal it. A set of apparent personal symbols reappear in many of his pain   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 1489 characters.]  Artist bio

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