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Louis (Luigi) Bosa

Louis (Luigi) Bosa (1905 - 1981) was active/lived in New York, Pennsylvania / Italy.  Louis Bosa is known for Modernist genre, figure, landscape, portrait painting, teaching.

Born in a small town near Venice, Italy, Louis Bosa became a genre, figure, and landscape painter who exhibited widely, and was also a much-respected art teacher.  Amidst the growing trends of modernism, especially Abstract Expressionism, he kept to his own unique style of apolitical, witty character studies and subjects of humor and human pathos.   For art historians, his work has been difficult to categorize, which has led to him getting less attention than many of his contemporaries, especially those who had sophisticated public-relations machines.  Also, he was such a unique character---ever telling jokes and far-fetched stories---that the focus on him tended to be on his quirky personality rather than the seriousness of his art.

Bosa showed early art talent and interest, and began to do figure paintings, using his family as models, by the age of ten.  When he was fifteen years old, he enrolled in Venice at the Academia delle Belle   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 6154 characters.]  Artist bio

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