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Alfonso A Ossorio

Alfonso A. Ossorio (1916 - 1990) was active/lived in New York / Philippines.  Alfonso Ossorio is known for Surreal view, assemblages, mural, paintings, sculptor, collage and assemblage.

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Alfonso Ossorio in his painting showed his predilection for the art brut ("raw art") of the insane, criminals and children espoused by Jean Dubuffet who was a major influence on Ossorio from the age of thirty-three. For him, like many of his contemporaries, rational society, traditional art and existence failed to have meaning, which he sought in the darker avenues of the human spirit and the spontaneous, unpremeditated creations of innocence. Ossorio was also influenced by his friend Jackson Pollock, as well as Salvador Dali and Pablo Picasso.

Ossorio, the son of a wealthy sugar planter, was born in Manila, on the island of Luzon in the Philippines in 1916, becoming an American citizen in 1939. Educated in England and the United States, he studied at Harvard and the Rhode Island School of Design.

Ossorio eventually moved from painting to sculptural assemblage or junk art, utilizing a wide variety of objects including toys, broken glass, skeletons and glass   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 20104 characters.]  Artist bio

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Nevertheless , 1957-58

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Untitled

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Sans titre , c. 1951

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"Ascencion (Vertical); Cross-Section (Horizontal) , 1956

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POLYONYMY - 1967

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The Accusation , 1951

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